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 and by used to explain any event.|AGAINST PSYCHOHISTORY / Michael Parenti| produced by Blair Zarubick. SERIES: Real history| no. 5 Professor Michael Parenti examines the 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 selected way, for personality traits can have multiple roots and be used to explain any event. BROADCAST: KPFK, 4 July 1990.