Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.
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...…
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…
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…
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 … - 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 …
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, …
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…
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…
Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks. - Lloyd Demause
Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.
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