Editing Psychohistory (section)

===Areas of study===
There are three inter-related areas of psychohistorical study.<ref name="Primalpages">{{cite web |url=http://primal-page.com/psyhis.htm |title=Lloyd deMause and Psychohistory |access-date=2008-03-11 |publisher=Primal Psychotherapy WebPages}}</ref>

:1. The history of childhood – which looks at such questions as:
::*How have children been raised throughout history
::*How has the family been constituted
::*How and why have practices changed over time
::*The changing place and value of children in society over time
::*How and why our views of child abuse and neglect have changed
:2. [[Psychobiography]] – which  seeks to understand individual historical people and their motivations in history.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}
:3. Group psychohistory – which  seeks to understand the motivations of large groups, including nations, in history and current affairs.  In doing so, psychohistory advances the use of group-fantasy analysis of political speeches, political cartoons and media headlines since the [[Loaded language|loaded terms]], [[metaphor]]s and repetitive words therein offer clues to unconscious thinking and behaviors.<ref name="Primalpages"/>