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 his eyes or his hands. Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development.
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple soci… - Lloyd Demause
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple soci…
- 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...… - 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...…
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 hi… - 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 hi…
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relat… - 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 that of relat…
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
Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians…
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, … - Lloyd Demause
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, …
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early p… - Lloyd Demause
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early p…
The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings … - 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 …
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… - 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 of…
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