Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of children. Just as family therapists today find that child abuse often functions to hold families… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share
I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share
There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of children. Just as family therapists today find that child abuse often functions to hold families together as a way of solving their emotional problems, so, too, the routine assault of children has been society's most… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share
“Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSE The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 "Extending these local figures to a national estimate… — Lloyd Demause Copy Share Image
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks. — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
“Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
