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Thomas Kohut

Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History

B.A. (1972) Oberlin College
Ph.D. (1983) University of Minnesota
Graduate of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute (1984)

Contact
On Leave - Williams Oxford

Thomas.A.Kohut@williams.edu



Selected Publications
In progress: History, Loss, and the Generation of 1914: Sixty-Two Stories of Twentieth-Century Germany.
"Psychoanalysis as Psychohistory or Why Psychotherapists Cannot Afford to Ignore Culture," Annual of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis and History, Jerome A. Winer and James William Anderson, eds., 31 (2003), pp. 225-36.
"History, Loss, and the Generation of 1914: The Case of the Freideutsche Kreis," Generationalität und Lebensgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert: Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, Kolloquien 58, Jurgen Reulecke, ed. (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag; 20031, pp. 253-77.
"The Creation of Wilhelm Busch as a German Cultural Hero, 1902 -1908," Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture, Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle, eds. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 286-304.
With Jürgen Reulecke, "'Sterben wie eine Ratte, die der Bauer ertappt'.
Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad," Stalingrad: Ereignis, Wirkung, Symbol, Jürgen Förster, ed. (Munich and Zurich: Piper Verlag, 19921, pp. 456-71.
Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
"Psychohistory as History,'' The American Historical Review 91 (1986), pp. 336-354.
"Mirror Image of the Nation: An Investigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II's Leadership of the Germans," The Leader: Psychohistorical Essays, Charles B. Strozier and Daniel Offer, eds. (New York: Plenum Press, 1985), pp. 179- 229.
"Kaiser Wilhelm and his Parents: An Inquiry into the Psychological Roots of German Policy Towards England Before the First World War," Kaiser Wilhelm II: New Interpretations, John C. G. Rohl and Nicolaus Sombart, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19821, pp. 63-89.

Research Interests
Modern German history; European cultural and intellectual history; the psychological dimension of the past.


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