Journal Article

Searching for Early Psychohistory Studies and Usages of the Word Psychohistory

Elovitz, Paul H

2025

Overview

The distinguished Luther scholar, Preserved Smith (18801941) published Luther's Table Talk: A Critical Study (1907) and \"Luther's Early Development in the Light of Psycho-analysis\" in the American Journal of Psychology (1913). Late in his life, Clark commonly used the term \"psychohistory\" and wrote on Alexander the Great, Lincoln, and Napoleon, focusing on narcissism but without much psychobiographical depth. Since I knew of no one else writing on these colleagues, I wrote a short article on each, crediting Elizabeth, who had died in 2005, as a co-author.6 Although my interest in the early uses of the term psychohistory never flagged, other activities absorbed my time. [...]I invited my Finnish colleague Professor Juhani Ihanus to join this project: he right- fully deserves credit for finding the word psycho-historical in 1810 and his erudite discussion of the issues involved.

• Publisher: Association for Psychohistory, Inc
• Subject: Asimov, Isaac (1920-1992) / Dictionaries / Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) / Historians / Psychoanalysis / Psychology / Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)