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Lloyd DeMause Quotes

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 children. Just as family therapists today find that child abuse often functions to hold families together as a way of solving their emotional problems, so, too, the routine assault of children has been society’s most effective way of maintaining its collective emotional homeostasis Picture Quote #1

Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a child become what he or she wants to become, every expression of love toward children heals society and moves it in unexpected, wondrous new directions Picture Quote #1

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 routinely murdered, bound, starved, raped, mutilated, battered, and tortured by their parents and other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippled adults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restage their early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars Picture Quote #1

Historians are presumed to be unable to do psychology, which is mystical anyway, so they are forced to accept the most rational explanations... And it is on these that history is built Picture Quote #1

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Most ethnologists scrupulously avoid describing how these children feel about participating in the killing or eating of their siblings Picture Quote #1

Most historians have been as little able to feel empathy for infants sent to wet nurses as the mothers themselves were Picture Quote #1

It is no wonder that historians have chosen to hide, deny and whitewash the record here uncovered Picture Quote #1

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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 children. Just as family therapists today find that child abuse often functions to hold families together as a way of solving their emotional problems, so, too, the routine assault of children has been society’s most effective way of maintaining its collective emotional homeostasis (Lloyd DeMause Quotes) Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks (Lloyd DeMause Quotes) 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 (Lloyd DeMause Quotes) The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a child become what he or she wants to become, every expression of love toward children heals society and moves it in unexpected, wondrous new directions (Lloyd DeMause Quotes) 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 routinely murdered, bound, starved, raped, mutilated, battered, and tortured by their parents and other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippled adults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restage their early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars (Lloyd DeMause Quotes) Historians are presumed to be unable to do psychology, which is mystical anyway, so they are forced to accept the most rational explanations... And it is on these that history is built (Lloyd DeMause Quotes) Most ethnologists scrupulously avoid describing how these children feel about participating in the killing or eating of their siblings (Lloyd DeMause Quotes) Most historians have been as little able to feel empathy for infants sent to wet nurses as the mothers themselves were (Lloyd DeMause Quotes) It is no wonder that historians have chosen to hide, deny and whitewash the record here uncovered (Lloyd DeMause Quotes)