Psychohistory and Transactional Analysis

Abstract

Psychohistory is an emerging field, the nature of which is controversial. I contend we need a holistic psychohistory to study the interrelations between history and human psyches. From TA, psychohistorians can obtain useful psychological training, principles, concepts, insights and instruments.

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