In 1950, T. W. Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswick, Nevitt Sanford, and their associates published The Authoritarian Personality, which quickly made a mark in the social sciences. This book was, in a sense, the culmination of an intellectual train of thought which had its start in Harold Lasswell's Psychopathology and Politics (1930) and was later given a strong impetus by Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom (1941). Lasswell presented a number of life histories to demonstrate that one could relate specific political types (e.g., the agitator) to specific personality needs (e.g., narcissism). The analysis was inadequate for he dealt merely with traits, not coherent personality