Different Quote by Lloyd deMause

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

— Hippolyte Taine

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

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

— Mason Cooley

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

— Margaret MacMillan

I believe history of humankind has always faced challenges. I don't think that any other period in history was less problematic then the one…

— Lara Fabian

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

— George Orwell

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

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right…

— Rose Tremain

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson

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

I think history is just so cyclical.

— Alexandra Bracken