Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History
- B.A. (1972) Oberlin College
- Ph.D. (1983) University of Minnesota
- Graduate of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute (1984)
- Thomas.A.Kohut@williams.edu
- Office Hours
- On leave, 2006 - 2007
- Courses
- Research
- Modern German history; European cultural and intellectual history; the psychological dimension of the past.
- Thesis Students
- Selected Publications
- In progress: History, Loss, and the Generation of 1914: Sixty-Two Stories of Twentieth-Century Germany.
- "Psychoanalysis as Psychohistory or Why Psychotherapists Cannot Afford to Ignore Culture," Annual of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis and History, Jerome A. Winer and James William Anderson, eds., 31 (2003), pp. 225-36.
- "History, Loss, and the Generation of 1914: The Case of the Freideutsche Kreis," Generationalität und Lebensgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert: Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, Kolloquien 58, Jurgen Reulecke, ed. (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag; 20031, pp. 253-77.
- "The Creation of Wilhelm Busch as a German Cultural Hero, 1902 -1908," Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture, Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle, eds. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 286-304.
- With Jürgen Reulecke, "'Sterben wie eine Ratte, die der Bauer ertappt'. Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad," Stalingrad: Ereignis, Wirkung, Symbol, Jürgen Förster, ed. (Munich and Zurich: Piper Verlag, 19921, pp. 456-71.
- Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
- "Psychohistory as History,'' The American Historical Review 91 (1986), pp. 336-354.
- "Mirror Image of the Nation: An Investigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II's Leadership of the Germans," The Leader: Psychohistorical Essays, Charles B. Strozier and Daniel Offer, eds. (New York: Plenum Press, 1985), pp. 179-229.
- "Kaiser Wilhelm and his Parents: An Inquiry into the Psychological Roots of German Policy Towards England Before the First World War," Kaiser Wilhelm II: New Interpretations, John C. G. Rohl and Nicolaus Sombart, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19821, pp. 63-89.