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

"The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history…"

"Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but it…"

"Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They …"

"Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have b…"

"There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing …"

"I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company …"

"Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the…"

"Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part o…"

"I no longer believe that most traditional historians are emotionally equipped, even with training, to use their feeli…"