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Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.

— Lloyd deMause Foundations of Psychohistory (1982)

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

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

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

Foundations of Psychohistory (1982)

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

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

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

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

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