The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind - Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts

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.

Summary

The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind.

Additional text

a wide-ranging account of a fascinating topic

Report

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

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Pick, Daniel (Professor of History Pick, Pick Daniel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2014
• EAN: 9780199678518
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967851-8
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 217 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Social, group or collective psychology, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Military and defence strategy, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater