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The remarkable story of how the Allies used psychoanalysis to delve into the motivations of the Nazi leadership and to explore the mass psychology of fascism.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Characters and Causes
- 3: 'The Deputy Madman'
- 4: Getting Through to Hess
- 5: Madness and Politics
- 6: The OSS
- 7: Hitler's Mind
- 8: So Plainly Mad?
- 9: Nuremberg: Conspiracy and Confession
- 10: Sane Futures?
- 11: Legacies
- 12: Afterword
- Appendices
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
About the author
Daniel Pick is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. An editor of History Workshop Journal, he is also a practising psychoanalyst and a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is the author of numerous works on European cultural history, including Svengali's Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture and, most recently, Rome or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi, and he is currently preparing the volume on Psychoanalysis for the Very Short Introductions series.
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The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind.
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a wide-ranging account of a fascinating topic
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In the last few years we have witnessed a growing historical interest in the contribution given by social sciences to the Allied war effort against Nazism. Daniel Picks book adds another fragment to this fascinating and controversial story. Raffaele Laudani, War in History
