Book

The Madman in the White House

Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson

Patrick Weil

2023

Harvard University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

Pathologies of a President

A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?

by Adam Hochschild via New Statesman on June 19, 2023
Book Review

Should We Psychoanalyze Our Presidents?

Sigmund Freud once applied his Oedipal theory to the leader of the free world.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on May 28, 2023
Book Review

President Wilson on the Couch

What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?

by Nick Haslam via Inside Story on May 16, 2023

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