What do you think of psychologist Arthur Brodbeck’s views on explaining history in terms of psychology?
The American psychologist Arthur Brodbeck says that ” we are accustomed to explaining history in terms of crises of a physical nature, as well as in terms of waves of economic problems and physical disease, but we have not yet learned to interpret history in terms of psychological maladies that rise and fall over the course of time”
Culture and social character, page 44)
DR.Rosen said,
Wrote on July 27, 2010 @ 10:36 am
I would agree, although implicitly when he says that history is explained in terms of crises of a physical nature and waves of economic problems and physical disease. This could be said that implicitly psychological maladies could be included under this rubric. However I do agree that psychological maladies being both cause and effect should explicitly be added in the explanation of history. I feel the reason it’s not is because the world has not accepted psychology fully in terms of historiography and that needs to change