Psychobiography examines the links between self-hatred and anti-Semitism in Adolf Hitler, suggesting deep psychological conflicts.
George Victor, a psychologist and psychotherapist for over 30 years, has written a psychobiography of Hitler that is distinguished by its broad research and original ideas. Along with studying most of the psychological, biographical, and historical publications about Hitler and forming his own opinions on the factual veracity of many controversial biographical events, Victor has used data and concepts from behaviorism, child development, experimental psychology, psychoanalysis, social psychology, and sociology. He has also read the unpublished manuscript, Analysis of the Personality of Adolf Hitler, by the eminent psychologist and psychiatrist, Henry Murray; and he has talked about his work with Rudolph Binion, author of the influential 1976 psychobiography, Hitler Among the Germans.
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