This article, as its author himself indicates, raises more questions than it answers. The discussion by John Demos is perhaps more illuminating in

regard to studies in psychoanalytic history than is the article itself. However, the article is useful in that it points up the real difficulties involved in psychohistory. The most important statement is Demos's comment that we need "a new and different theory, a theory of group psychology, no more and no less, in order to cross this next frontier of psychohistory." It seems that we have not gone very far in formulating a real scientific methodological approach to psychohistory.