Richard Koenigsberg, Ph.D., is a psychologist and historian, leading authority on Hitler, Nazism and the First World War. Hitler’s Ideology: A Study in Psychoanalytic Society was hailed as an “instant classic” and the “best critical analysis in English of Hitler’s thought”. His psychoanalytic study, Symbiosis and Separation, was praised by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, Francis Tustin and Thomas Ogden. His influential Nations have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War reveals a sacrificial dynamic at the heart of warfare.

Widely reviewed, commentary and reflections appear here. GOOGLE writes that Nations Have the Right to Kill  "proposes that solving the riddle of the Holocaust necessitates deconstructing the ideology of warfare. Hitler understood that war represents the occasion when a political leader is permitted to send his own soldiers to die."

 

 

  
The renowned Ideologies of War, Genocide and Terror Website features publications by the most prominent scholars on these topics. Koenigsberg's papers have appeared in The American Imago, The Psychoanalytic Review, and Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. His online publications are here. He has lectured widely throughout the United States and Canada, often as Keynote Speaker.






Richard presented a Workshop at the Church Center of the United Nations at the invitation of Ambassador Anthony DeLuca. Presently, his ideas reach the world through The Library of Social Science Newsletter. Author of five books, He presently focuses on digital publication, reaching more readers in a single day than the typical journal article or scholarly book reaches in its lifetime.