Abusive Quote by Lloyd deMause

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

— Lloyd deMause

“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

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

The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been…

— Lloyd deMause