"Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. [...] Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Ch. 2, p. 100.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lloyd_deMause
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Lloyd deMause
20 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Lloyd deMause →
Related Quotes
"Most historians have been as little able to feel empathy for infants sent to wet nurses as the mothers themselves were."
"It is no wonder that historians have chosen to hide, deny and whitewash the record here uncovered."
"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…"
"I no longer believe that most traditional historians are emotionally equipped, even with training, to use their feeli…"