Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
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… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
“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
