Emotional Life Of Nations

by Lloyd DeMause

Book by Demause, Lloyd

Genres: History, Psychology, Psychohistory

456 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

DeMause has made major contributions to the study of Psychohistory which is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events. It seeks to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present. Its subject matter is childhood and the family (especially child abuse), and psychological studies of anthropology and ethnology.

In a 1994 interview with deMause in The New Yorker, the interviewer wrote: "To buy into psychohistory, you have to subscribe to some fairly woolly assumptions [...], for instance, that a nations's child-rearing techniques affect its foreign policy".

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Reviews

[Victoria Dimitrakopoulos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another brilliant book, also very wacky at times.

[Irene · Rating 5 out of 5]

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