Billions Quote by Isaac Asimov

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

Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.

— Lloyd deMause

Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and…

— Lloyd deMause

“Was it possible that human psychology changed between the years of nine and fifteen? It seemed unlikely. What evolutionary purpose would such a change…

— Conor Kostick

Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We…

— J. H. Plumb

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

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

— Stanley Smith Stevens

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

— Anonymous

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

— Hippolyte Taine

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

— Erik Erikson

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only…

— Will Self

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from…

— Wilhelm Wundt