Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman Empire Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman Empire The causes and mechanisms of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire are a historical theme that was introduced by historian Edward Gibbon in his 1776 book "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". He started an ongoing historiographical discussion about what caused the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, and the reduced power of the remaining Eastern Empire, in the 4th–5th centuries. Gibbon was not the first to speculate on why the Empire collapsed, but he was the first to give a well-researched and well-referenced account.
Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire by , and the philosopher Adolf Grünbaum's "The Foundations of Psychoanalysis" (1984). He accepts Elizabeth Thornton's argument, made in "Freud and Cocaine" (1983), also published as "The Freudian Fallacy", that Breuer's patient Anna O. suffered from tuberculous meningitis. "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" was first published by Viking Press in 1985. The book was published by Pelican Books in 1986. In 2004, a revised edition with a preface by Hans Eysenck's widow, Sybil Eysenck, was published by Transaction Publishers. "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" received a positive review from Paul Stuewe in "Quill & Quire", and