Psychohistory is a transdisciplinary field of knowledge that represents an amalgam of psychology, history, psychoanalysis, political psychology, anthropology, ethnology, and related social sciences, a
Rembrandt's painting of the sacrifice of Isaac (Gen.22). Psychohistory holds that ritual child sacrifice once occurred in most cultures.
The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report, published in 1972 by Basic Books, is based on a World War II report by psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer which probed the psychology of Adolf Hitler f
Psychohistory
…the psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer to prepare a psychological study of Adolf Hitler, which predicted Hitler's suicide; it was later published as The Mind of Adolf Hitler (1972). After the war, the Central Intelligence Agency employed analysts to assess the psychology of foreign leaders. In his 1957 presidential address…