Word: psychohistorians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer be the U.S. Secretary of State. There will never be another like him-a prospect that pleases his enemies as much as it saddens his admirers. The debate on Henry the K's legacy is just starting and promises to grow-and grow. He is, as Psychohistorian Bruce Mazlish explains, "one of those figures, like a Churchill or a De Gaulle, who bestride their eras and dominate by the sheer weight of their character. Such figures take on mythical, as well as historical attributes, even in their own time...
TIME'S issue of Oct. 14 says: "As Johnson neared death, [Doris] Kearns reports, bitterness and psychic pain led him deep into fantasy and to the edge of paranoia." Lyndon Johnson suffered a heart attack in April 1972, and although I am not a "psychohistorian," I believe that for the nine months remaining to him he sensed that his time was running out. But bitterness, fantasy and paranoia have no relation to the activities I witnessed in that period, and I saw a great deal of him then; those activities were of a man at peace with himself...
...closed meeting, such luminaries as Kenneth Keniston and Robert Jay Lifton were there. So was Erik Erikson (Young Man Luther, Gandhi's Truth), the founding spirit of the movement and the group. But the center of attention this year was Doris Kearns, probably the first aspiring psychohistorian to be prodded into print by her subject...
ROBERT JAY LIFTON, U.S. psychohistorian (Yale): Mao was able to articulate, live out and connect with the aspirations of the Chinese people at a time of crisis. Like most great religious and political leaders, he had some relation to a holocaust (the disintegration of Chinese culture, the warlords, Japanese invasion...
Robert Jay Lifton, the Yale psychiatry professor who calls himself a "psychohistorian," is a student of holocaust...