Quotes from Lloyd deMause

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

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.

The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken.