Pursuit Of The Nazi Mind
Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts
Maak tweedehands je eerste keus
- Gratis verzending vanaf 4 boeken of 40 euro
- Alle boeken met zorg gecontroleerd
- Op werkdagen voor 15:00u besteld, vandaag verzonden.
50% korting
Niet op voorraad... Seintje?
Vul je e-mail adres in en wij sturen je een e-mail als het boek weer op voorraad is.
ISBN
9780199541683
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Taal
Engels
Auteur
Uitgeverij
Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgifte
2012
Aantal pagina's
368
Waar gaat het over?
The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the historian and the trained psychoanalyst to weave together the story of clinical encounters with leading Nazis and the Allies' broader interpretations of the Nazi high command and the mentality of the wider German public who supported them. Following the bizarre capture of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess in 1941, Pick follows closely the story of how leading British psychiatrists assessed their new charge, in an attempt to understand both the man himself and the psychological bases of his Nazi convictions. At the same time, he uncovers the story of how a team of American officers working for the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, were engaged in an attempt to understand Hitler's personality from afar, using the theories and techniques of Sigmund Freud. Drawing upon a large cache of archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Pick asks what such psychoanalytical and psychiatric investigations set out to do, showing how Freud's famous 'talking cure' was harnessed to the particular needs of military intelligence during the war and the task of post-war reconstruction that followed. Looking beyond this, he then shows just how deeply post-war Western understandings of how minds work and groups operate were influenced by these wartime attempts to interpret the psychopathology of Nazism.
Lees verder
Helaas zijn er geen recensies op dit boek