Lloyd deMause

"Anthropologists have concluded that "child abuse...is virtually unknown" in New Guinea."

"I have been accused of being ignorant of economics , of being ignorant of sociology , of being unable to use statistics and of ignoring political factors ."

"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…"

"Indeed, most of what is in history books is stark, raving mad —the maddest of all being the historian's belief that it is sane. For some time now, I often cry when I watch the evening news, read newsp…"

"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 …"

"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 ca…"

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