出刊年月/Date of Publishing

1989.09

所屬卷期/Vol. & No.   第19卷第3期 Vol. 19, No. 3

類型/Type                 研究論文 Research Article

篇名/Title
心理學理論在美國史研究上的應用及其得失
A Preliminary Study of The Psychological Interpretation of American History

作者/Author
孫同勛 Tung-Hsun Sun

頁碼/Pagination
pp. 1-29

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Abstract
Although the application of psychological theories to the study of American history began as early 2s the l 920’s, it did not become a fashion among historians until the l950’s. Today, psychohistory is widely recognized as an established sub-branch of the history discipline in the United States. In this paper, besides tracing the rise of psychohistory in American historiography, the author also evaluated the merits and demerits of psychohistory through a discussion of the psychological interpretations of two events—the Jacksonian Democracy and the Abolition Movement—and two persons—Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson—in the American past. He comes to the conclusion that though psychological theories provides historians with new insights in their effort to understand past events, their application to the study of history nevertheless raises some fundamental methodological difficulties which greatly reduce the usefulness and credibility of the psychological approach to history.

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學門分類/Subject
史學 History