The pursuit of the Nazi mind : Hitler, Hess, and the analysts / Daniel Pick
First Edition Hardback Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 Very Good
Book Publishing Details
| Author: | Pick, Daniel |
| Full title: | The pursuit of the Nazi mind : Hitler, Hess, and the analysts / Daniel Pick |
| Publisher: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Edition: | First Edition |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| ISBN: | No ISBN |
| Pages: | 375 |
| Book ID: | 226384 |
Comments & Item Features
First Edition. Language: English. ISBN: No ISBN.
An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 375 pages; Physical description; 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Contents; Introduction -- Characters and causes -- 'The deputy madman" -- Getting through to Hess -- Madness and politics -- The OSS -- Hitler's mind -- So plainly mad? -- Nuremberg : conspiracy and confession -- Sane futures? -- Legacies. 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. 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.Biography; 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. Subjects; Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945 - Psychology. Hess, Rudolf 1894-1987 - Psychology. Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945. Hess, Rudolf 1894-1987.
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An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 375 pages; Physical description; 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Contents; Introduction -- Characters and causes -- 'The deputy madman" -- Getting through to Hess -- Madness and politics -- The OSS -- Hitler's mind -- So plainly mad? -- Nuremberg : conspiracy and confession -- Sane futures? -- Legacies. 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. 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.Biography; 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. Subjects; Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945 - Psychology. Hess, Rudolf 1894-1987 - Psychology. Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945. Hess, Rudolf 1894-1987.
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Book Condition Report
Book Condition: Very Good.
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