Decoding the past : the psychohistorical approach / Peter Loewenberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On psychohistory : a statement on method -- Psychoanalysis and history : the scope of the problem -- Psychohistory : an overview of the field -- The education of a psychohistorian -- Emotional problems of graduate education -- The graduate years : what kind of passage? -- Love and hate in the academy -- The psychobiographical background to psychohistory : the Langer family and the dynamics of shame and success -- Austrian portraits : identity, murder, and vacillation -- Theodor Herzl : nationalism and politics -- Victor and Friedrich Adler : revolutionary politics and generational conflict in Austro-Marxism -- Austro-Marxism and revolution : Otto Bauer, Freud's "Dora" case, and the crises of the First Austrian Republic -- The German case : leaders, followers, and group process -- The unsuccessful adolescence of Heinrich Himmler -- The psychohistorical origins of the Nazi youth cohort.