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The American Historical Review, 1986
IN ITS BRIEF AND NOT ALTOGETHER HAPPY existence, psychohistory has aroused considerable controversy. "Traditional" political and intellectual historians, suspicious of recent efforts to apply the theories and methods of other disciplines to the past, have criticized psychohistorians for emphasizing unconscious motive rather than conscious purpose.l ...
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IN ITS BRIEF AND NOT ALTOGETHER HAPPY existence, psychohistory has aroused considerable controversy. "Traditional" political and intellectual historians, suspicious of recent efforts to apply the theories and methods of other disciplines to the past, have criticized psychohistorians for emphasizing unconscious motive rather than conscious purpose.l ...
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Lenin and the Problems of Psychohistory
Canadian Slavonic Papers, 1977AbstractL’homme, Lenine, a resiste jusqu’ici a toute tentative d’analyse aussi bien en ce qui concerne les etudes communistes que les etudes non-communistes. Par consequent, on ne peut.qu’accueillir favorablement des articles comme celui de Stanley Page, ou des fragments de la vie interieure de Lenine sont soigneusement rassembles.
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Psychohistory and Its Discontents
Biography, 1978A methodological survey is offered of conceptual and evidentiary problems encountered in the interdisciplinary attempt to apply the insights of psychology-primarily psychoanalysis-to biographical and historical subjects. The psychohistorian's interpretive technique is compared to the psychoanalytic method invented by Freud and a selection of ...
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From sociohistory to psychohistory
Kybernetes, 2007PurposeThis study seeks to postulate a theory of psychohistory as a “think‐piece”. It develops from some earlier theoretical work on sociohistory that can model cultures that are large‐scale (e.g. societies) over the long term or small scale (e.g. corporations) over the short term. Sociohistory, as developed by Yolles and Frieden, provides a new theory
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1985
Erikson’s Young Man Luther opened a whole new phase in psychohistory. It became a highly controversial and visible endeavor for the literate public: one New Yorker cartoon in the mid-1970s pictured the locked door of a psychiatric unit with the label “Psychohistorian” above a small window.
Charles B. Strozier, Daniel Offer
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Erikson’s Young Man Luther opened a whole new phase in psychohistory. It became a highly controversial and visible endeavor for the literate public: one New Yorker cartoon in the mid-1970s pictured the locked door of a psychiatric unit with the label “Psychohistorian” above a small window.
Charles B. Strozier, Daniel Offer
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Temporal Integration and Psychohistory
Psychological Reports, 1992Citing Hearnshaw and Gombrich on the concept of temporal integration, this paper briefly suggests the utility of this concept to the psychohistorian. A case study on the Aztecs, as viewed by historian William H. Prescott, illustrates this theme.
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American Scientist, 2007
The highs and lows of Nash's life are out of the range of experience of most human beings. As an undergraduate, he initiated the modern theory of eco nomic bargaining. His graduate thesis formulated the idea of a Nash equilibri um, which is now regarded as the basic building block of the theory of games.
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The highs and lows of Nash's life are out of the range of experience of most human beings. As an undergraduate, he initiated the modern theory of eco nomic bargaining. His graduate thesis formulated the idea of a Nash equilibri um, which is now regarded as the basic building block of the theory of games.
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Psychobiography and Psychohistory
1981In the present chapter we will not attempt to trace the historical development of the field of psychohistory. This has been done adequately elsewhere (Anderson, 1978; Barnes, 1925; Garraty, 1954; Glad, 1973; Kren & Rappoport, 1973). Nor will we cover all works to which the labels psychohistory or psychobiography have been applied. Focusing on political
Faye Crosby, Travis L. Crosby
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