Psychohistory, according to Peter Loewenberg, is "the most powerful of interpretive approaches to history" because it systematically includes the "emotional and subjective sensibility of the observer" and "enriches the historical account of political, social, and cultural-intellectual events with a perception of latent or unconscious themes, of style, content, and conflict, that integrate apparently discordant data from a specific historical locus" (p. 3). Traditional historical narrative, Loewenberg argues, fails in its assigned task of explaining the past. It is too rational, largely superficial, often obsessive, and based on common-sense psychology. The past deserves better treatment.