Acknowledgments
Glossary
Introduction
Historians in the Vanguard of Psychohistory
My Pioneering Road Traveled as a Psychohistorian
By: Peter Loewenberg
From History to Psychohistory: A Personal Journey Revisited
By: David R. Beisel
Rudolph Binion’s Psychohistory Workshop: Frau Lou:
Nietzsche’s Wayward Disciple
By: Deborah Hayden
Researching Health and Therapy in Nazi Germany
By: Geoffrey Cocks
The Struggle to Understand My Road to Psychohistory: Moving Away from Anxiety, a Low Self-Image, and Childhood Fears to a Life of Intellectual Leadership
By: Paul H. Elovitz
Lawrence J. Friedman’s Art of Fusing History and Psychology
By: Mark I. West
From Studying Freud to Psychohistorical Leadership
By: Ken Fuchsman
Applying History and Psychohistory as a Business Consultant
By: Jack Fitzpatrick
My Path to Using Psychohistory as an American Historian
By: Martin H. Quitt
My Circuitous Route to Psychohistory
By: Peter W. Petschauer
Searching for the French Revolution, Mandela, and Beyond
By: Barry Shapiro
A Memoir of Psychohistory
By: Charles B. Strozier
Psychologists as Psychohistorians
My Journey as a Psychobiographer
By: James William Anderson
The Origins of My Psychohistorical Scholarship
By: Herbert Barry III
My Development as a Psychohistorian
By: Dan Burston
How the Holocaust and Feminism Led Me to Become a Psychohistorian
By: Eva Fogelman
My Road to Group Psychohistory
By: John Jacob Hartman
Coming to Terms with Psychohistory
By: Juhani Ihanus
Psychohistory in the United Kingdom
By: Brett Kahr
A Winding Road to Psychobiography and Psychohistory
By: Joseph G. Ponterotto
Avner Falk: A Prolific Israeli Psychohistorian
By: Joyce M. Rosenberg
Changing Visions of Psychology and Life Histories: A Personal Journey
By: William McKinley Runyan
The Far-Reaching Effects of Trauma and the Power of Humor
By: Burton Norman Seitler
From Medicine to Psychohistory
My Life as a Psychohistorian Working for Peace
By: Vamık Volkan
My Life in Applied Psychoanalysis
By: Arnold D. Richards
Judith Kestenberg: A Psychohistorical Advocate for Holocaust Child Survivors and Their Children
By: Eva Fogelman
Ralph Colp: My Darwinian Psychohistorian and Psychiatrist Father
By: Judith Colp Rubin
Living and Dreaming the Traumatic History of My Parents: My Road to Psychohistory
By: Inna Rozentsvit
From Anthropology and Political Science to Psychohistory
My Learning Journey as a Psychologist: From Behaviorism to Psychohistory
By: Michael Maccoby
Psychohistory: A Road I Did Not Know I Would Take
By: Howard F. Stein
Trauma, Psychohistory, and Humane Understanding: An Interview with C. Fred Alford
By: Matthew H. Bowker
From Philosophy, Literature, and Social Work
The Passion of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
By: Judith Harris
Achieving a Psychohistorical Worldview
By: Denis O’Keefe
Using Psychoanalysis to Understand Irrationality
By: Robert Samuels
The Illusion
By: Howard H. Covitz
Independent Scholars Doing Psychohistory
Dig Where You Stand!
By: Heinrich J. Reiß (Reiss)
A Former Student’s Experience in Psychohistory
By: David Cifelli
Building Psychohistory in France and Switzerland
By: Marc-André Cotton
Final Thoughts
About the Contributors
Index