Lloyd deMause Quotes

Lloyd deMause is an American social thinker known for his work in the field of psychohistory. He did graduate work in political science at Columbia University and later trained as a lay psychoanalyst, which is defined as a psychoanalyst who does not have a medical degree. He is the founder of The Journal of Psychohistory. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. September 1931
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“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 tribes.”

Source: The Origins of War in Child Abuse (2010), Ch. 1, JP, Vol. 34. No. 4, p. 299 (each chapter of deMause's book has been published first in his Journal of Psychohistory).

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

Source: The Emotional Life of Nations (2002), Ch. 8, p. 318.

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

Source: The Emotional Life of Nations (2002), Ch. 7, p. 273.

“It is no wonder that historians have chosen to hide, deny and whitewash the record here uncovered.”

Source: The Emotional Life of Nations (2002), Ch. 8, p. 379.

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