ABSTRACT
Rudolph Binion, Peter Gay and Peter Loewenberg are the three most outstanding and well-known psychohistorical historians. Loewenberg has focused on Austrian socialists, China, highly creative groups, psychoanalysis, psychohistory, and the Nazis. Peter Loewenberg has had a dual career as a historian and psychoanalyst with a powerful commitment to psychohistory. Loewenberg took his history doctoral degree in 1966 and taught European intellectual and cultural history; German, Austrian, and Swiss history; as well as political psychology and psychohistory in the History Department of UCLA from 1965 until his final retirement in 2004. Loewenberg arranged for low cost therapy for graduate students and enabled some to augment their UCLA history coursework with seminars at the psychoanalytic institute. A major contribution Loewenberg made was as Dean of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute from 2001–2006. He negotiated the re-unification of the two Los Angeles institutes that had split in 1950 into the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.
