心理历史学是研究过去时代的复杂心理,这门学科从一开始就被人们认为是一种令人烦恼的历史。人们一般把心理历史学看成是在实践上最背离20世纪史学理论的一个派别,这个学派的研究工作者从未受到传统史学同行的重视。即便他们之中的佼佼者弗洛伊德以其深刻的精神分析理论而备受人们的尊敬, Psychological history is the complex psychology of studying the past, which has been considered a disturbing history from the very beginning. People generally regard the psychological history as a faction deviating from the theory of history in the 20th century in practice. The researchers of this school have never been paid much attention by the traditional historians. Even though the leader among them, Floyd, is respected by his profound psychoanalytic theory,