Rudolph Binion, the author of my all-time favorite psychohistorical essay, “Repeat Performance: Leopold III and Belgian Neutrality” (1969), has also produced path-breaking book-length studies on Frau Lou: Nietzsche’s Wayward Disciple (1968) and on Hitler’s murderous anti-Semitism (Hitler Among the Germans, 1976). His literary essays in Sounding the Classics (1997), his work on late Nineteenth-century European demography, his recent essay on the psychological repercussions of the Black Death in Western Civilization, and his little gem on Bismarck in a recent Clio’s Psyche are also models of the best scholarship psychological history has to offer.
David Beisel (Sat,) studied this question.