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psychohistorian

  • a word derived from psychohistory.
    psychohistory
    noun
    history or the writing of history employing the techniques of psychoanalysis to explore motivations, explain actions, etc.

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But the center of attention this year was Doris Kearns, probably the first aspiring psychohistorian to be prodded into print by her subject.

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In the postwar years he became a kind of psychohistorian of art, exploring the metaphysical elements of painting and sculpture in such works as The Voices of Silence and The Metamorphosis of the Gods.

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Robert Jay Lifton, the Yale psychiatry professor who calls himself a "psychohistorian," is a student of holocaust.

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