- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: DaCapo Press; New edition edition (1 Mar 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0306805146
- ISBN-13: 978-0306805141
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.3 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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- #22 in Books > History > Political History > Fascism & Nazism
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The Psychopathic God is the definitive psychological portrait of Adolph Hitler. By documenting accounts of his behavior, beliefs, tastes, fears, and compulsions, Robert Waite sheds new light on this complex figure. But Waites ultimate aim is to explain how Hitlers psychopathology changed Germanand worldhistory. With The Psychopathic God we can begin to understand Hitler as never before.
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AS FUHRER of the Germans, Adolf Hitler probably exerted more direct personal power than any ruler in history. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Waite strips Adolf Hitler down to the core, revealing in his childhood explanations for not only why Hitler was who he was, but also revealing in general the reasons the German volk followed him down the fiery path of the Holocaust. His fascinating analysis of the routine and horrifying abuse that passed for normal child-rearing methods in middle European countries tears away the the curtain that has shrouded the motivations of Hitler and his countrymen, and makes it clear that the Holocaust was not an abberation in Germany--it was an inevitability. Read this with Alice Miller's "For Your Own Good" and Wolff's "Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna," and you'll get the picture.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I was assigned this book for a class that dealt soley with Nazi-era Germany. It provided an eerie, but enveloping story of this all-too-human demi-god. There are certain aspects of his life that the author revealed here that I don't think I have ever heard or read anywhere else. Starting with his relationship with his mother and rounding out with his disturbing relationhip with Eva. This is a superb study which picks apart the charateristics of Hitler's demented mind.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is a great book, full of research and history of Germany. All of it is related to Adolf and his psycological state of mind. This could have certainly been the work of a psychologist. As the DSM-IV would describe a borderline personality as a personality disorder, the author has done so. Waite did a good job connecting every deviation of this "personna" to the History of Germany.This is a valuable book to keep in your personal library.
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Exhaustively researched and responsibly integrated
My review is appearing 14 years after the first ones were printed, so I'll avoid repeating what's been said and instead take up a wrong assertion made by some detractors that the... Read more
Published 13 days ago by Ronald Haak
Fascinating and Insightful
Robert Waite's The Psychipathic God is one of the most fascinating portraits I have read on Hitler, or indeed, any historical figure. Read more
Published 4 months ago by MR NC SHACKLEY
Interesting and of value for those who can handle it
The Negative Aspects
Firstly, the organization of the information in this book could have been more effectively structured. Read more
Published on 4 Jan 1999
Explains how the culture of Beethoven could produce Hitler
This is a great book! I've read it several times. It gives the philosophical and historical background to Hitler's rise to power. Read more
Published on 19 Jun 1998
An interesting fiction at best.
This is the by-product of a psycological profile of Hitler done for the Allies during WWII. Waite interviewed Germans who were in Canadian and American prisons. Read more
Published on 5 Jun 1998
Professor R.G.L. Waite should learn to stick to history.
It is not my intention to denigrate the talents of the historian Dr. Waite, but he should have learned a long time ago to leave Psychoanalysis to the Freudians. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 1998
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