Education

B.A. Oberlin College (1972)
M.A. University of Minnesota (1975)
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, History (1983)
Graduate Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute (1984)

Selected Publications

A German Generation: An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century (New Haven and London: Yale University Press; 2012).

“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, Jürgen Reulecke, ed. (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag; 2003), 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, 1992), pp. 456-71.

Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership (New York and Oxford: 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; 1982), pp. 63-89.

Research Interests

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