Lloyd deMause

"That dissociated selves were an everyday part of life in antiquity and the Middle Ages is a much-denied fact of historians, just as anthropologists deny that their subjects are dissociated personaliti…"

"But until my Journal of Psychoanalytical Anthropology began to be published and until my book The Emotional Life of Nations came out, few realized how much anthropologists distorted mothering in their…"

"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 four hundred years of wars, and then several …"

"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 neg…"

"Most ethnologists scrupulously avoid describing how these children feel about participating in the killing or eating of their siblings."

"The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of child care, and the more likely children are to b…"

"Most historians have been as little able to feel empathy for infants sent to wet nurses as the mothers themselves were."

"As with infanticide, the sexual abuse of children is widely reported by anthropologists, but in positive terms. "This would not constitute 'abuse' if in that society the behavior was not proscribed". …"