ABSTRACT
The integration of psychology into history and political science progressed rapidly and reached a tipping point in the early 1970s in what the distinguished psychohistorian David Beisel reports began to “look like a Golden Age” for psychological history. Throughout the country, groups committed to studying applied psychoanalysis seemed to spring up overnight like mushrooms. Specialized psychohistorical journals began in 1972 with the mimeographed Newsletter of the Group for the Use of Psychology in History and a full-fledged quarterly journal by 1978. Political Psychology, the journal of the International Society for Political Psychology, was launched in 1979 and contained some psychohistorically-based articles along with much academic political science and psychology. Psychohistory blossomed as an organized field in the 1970s in the United States with the establishment of a variety of organizations. The Group for the Use of Psychology in History met at annual American Historical Association conferences.
