Psychohistory

Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical
events, combining the insights of psychotherapy with the research
methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the
social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present.

Psychohistory derives many of its insights from history's "dirty little
secrets" such as incest, infanticide, child sacrifice, and in general child
abuse.

Lloyd deMause created the field of psychohistory and continues to be
extremely influential in it. Other notable psychohistorians include Alice
Miller and Julian Jaynes, though they are rarely thought of as such.

Centers of Research

The center for psychohistorical research is The Institute for Psychohistory
which has 19 branches around the globe and has for 30 years published The
Journal of Psychohistory.

The director of the Institute is Lloyd deMause, the founding president of
the International Psychohistorical Association, whose annual convention is
held in New York City in June of every year. His work is used in most
college courses in psychohistory.

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Psychohistory was also the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's
Foundation Trilogy universe, which combined history, psychology and
mathematical statistics to create a (nearly) exact science of the behavior
of very large populations of people, such as the Galactic Empire. Asimov
used the analogy of a gas, where whilst the motion of a single molecule is
very difficult to predict, the mass behavior of the gas can be predicted to
a high level of accuracy. This concept he then applied to the population of
the fictional Galactic Empire, which numbered in the quadrillions. The
character responsible for the science's creation, Hari Seldon, established
two postulates: that the population whose behaviour was modeled should be
sufficiently large and that they should remain in ignorance of the results
of the application of psychohistorical analyses.

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