LASWELL, HOWARD.

  • Against psychohistory / Michael Parenti ; produced by Blair Zarubick.

    Professor Michael Parenti examines psychohistorians, who reduce historical phenomena to psychological motivations from the early life of leaders. He criticizes the work of several psychohistorians: Howard Laswell, Bruno Bettelheim, Louis Foyer, Victor Wolfenstein, and J.D. Barber. Their works, he argues, depoliticizes political reality in a politically selected way, for personality traits can have multiple roots…