Editing Lloyd deMause

{{Short description|American thinker (1931–2020)}}
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| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1931|9|19}}
| birth_place      = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|2020|04|23|1931|9|19}}
| occupation       = Psychohistorian
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'''Lloyd deMause''' (pronounced ''de-Moss''; September 19, 1931 – April 23, 2020) was an American lay [[Psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] and [[Social history|social historian]], best known for his pioneering work in the field of [[psychohistory]].

He graduated from [[Columbia College (New York)|Columbia College]] and did graduate work in [[political science]] at [[Columbia University]] and later trained as a psychoanalyst. He taught psychohistory at the City University of New York. He is the founder of the ''[[Journal of Psychohistory]]''.

==Psychohistory==
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Beginning in the 1970s, DeMause began conceiving of [[psychohistory]], a field of study of the psychological motivations of historical events, and their associated patterns of behavior. It seeks to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations—past and present—by analyzing events in childhood and the family, especially [[child abuse]].

==Legacy==
In a 1994 interview with deMause in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', interviewer [[Stephen Schiff]] wrote that "to buy into psychohistory, you have to subscribe to some fairly woolly assumptions [...], for instance, that a nation's child-rearing techniques affect its [[foreign policy]]", but confessed that "deMause's analyses have often been weirdly prescient."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Stephen Schiff |date=December 5, 1994 |title=The Talk of the Town, "Bad Mommies and Other Omens" |url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1994/12/05/1994_12_05_055_TNY_CARDS_000370793 |magazine=The New Yorker |page=55}}</ref>

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==Controversy==
Contributing to his ostracization from psychoanalytic circles, deMause was a contributor to the [[Satanic ritual abuse]] hysteria of the early 1990s, in part via the circulation of his article "Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children",<ref>{{Cite web |title=PsycNET |url=https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1994-41441-001 |access-date=2019-07-22 |website=psycnet.apa.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=deYoung |first=Mary |date=1996-09-01 |title=A painted devil: Constructing the satanic ritual abuse of children problem |journal=Aggression and Violent Behavior |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=235–248 |doi=10.1016/1359-1789(95)00009-7 |issn=1359-1789}}</ref> where he labelled skeptics of reports of the abuse "molesters" and "pedophile advocates".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sjöberg |first=R. L. |date=1997-12-01 |title=False allegations of satanic abuse: Case studies from the witch panic in Rättvik 1670–71 |journal=European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |language=en |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=219–226 |doi=10.1007/BF00539929 |issn=1435-165X |pmid=9443001|s2cid=1110453 }}</ref> The article was used as a reliable source by ritual abuse proponents.

==Publications==
DeMause published over 90 scholarly articles and several books.

===Books===
*{{Cite book |last=DeMause |first=Lloyd |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofchildho00dema |title=The History of Childhood |publisher=Harper and Row |year=1974 |isbn=0061318485 |location=New York}}
*{{Cite book |last=DeMause |first=Lloyd |url=https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofps0000unse |title=A Bibliography of Psychohistory |journal=History of Childhood Quarterly |publisher=Garland Pub |year=1975 |isbn=0-8240-9999-0 |volume=2 |location=New York |pages=517–62 |pmid=11614558 |issue=4}}
*{{Cite book |last=DeMause |first=Lloyd |title=The New Psychohistory |publisher=Psychohistory Press |year=1975 |isbn=0-914434-01-2 |location=New York}}
*{{Cite book |last1=Ebel |first1=Henry |url=https://archive.org/details/jimmycarterameri00dema |title=Jimmy Carter and American Fantasy: Psychohistorical Explorations |last2=DeMause, Lloyd |publisher=Two Continents |year=1977 |isbn=0-8467-0363-7 |location=New York}}
*{{Cite book |last=DeMause |first=Lloyd |url=http://psychohistory.com/books/foundations-of-psychohistory/ |title=Foundations of Psychohistory |publisher=Creative Roots |year=1982 |isbn=0-940508-01-X |location=New York}}
*{{Cite book |last=DeMause |first=Lloyd |url=https://archive.org/details/reagansamerica00demarich |title=Reagan's America |publisher=Creative Roots |year=1984 |isbn=0-940508-02-8 |location=New York}}
*{{Cite book |last=DeMause |first=Lloyd |title=The History of Childhood (reprint) |publisher=Jason Aronson |year=1995 |isbn=1-56821-551-7 |location=Northvale, New Jersey}}
*{{Cite book |last=DeMause |first=Lloyd |url=http://psychohistory.com/books/the-emotional-life-of-nations/ |title=The Emotional Life of Nations |publisher=Karnac |year=2002 |isbn=1-892746-98-0 |location=New York}}
*{{Cite book |last=DeMause |first=Lloyd |url=http://psychohistory.com/books/the-origins-of-war-in-child-abuse/ |title=The Origins of War in Child Abuse |publisher=The Institute for Psychohistory |year=2010}}

===Articles (selection)===
*DeMause, Lloyd  (1974): The Evolution of Childhood. In: ''History of Childhood Quarterly: The Journal of Psychohistory'', 1 (4), p.&nbsp;503-575. (Comments and reply: p.&nbsp;576-606) 
*DeMause, Lloyd (1987): The History of Childhood in Japan. In: ''The Journal of Psychohistory'', 15 (2), p.&nbsp;147-151.
*DeMause, Lloyd (1988): On Writing Childhood History. In: ''The Journal of Psychohistory'', 16 (2), p.&nbsp;35-71.
*DeMause, Lloyd (1989): The Role of Adaptation and Selection in Psychohistorical Evolution. In: ''The Journal of Psychohistory'', 16 (4), p.&nbsp;355-372 (Comments and reply: p. S. 372–404).
*DeMause, Lloyd (1990): The History of Child Assault. In: ''The Journal of Psychohistory'', 18 (1), p.&nbsp;1-29.
*DeMause, Lloyd (1991): The Universality of Incest. In: ''The Journal of Psychohistory'', 19 (1), p.&nbsp;123-164.
*DeMause, Lloyd (1997): The Psychogenic Theory of History. In: ''The Journal of Psychohistory'', 25 (1), p.&nbsp;112-183.

==See also==
*[[Early infanticidal childrearing]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140929222118/http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/bio.html  DeMause's bio]
*{{YouTube|BB3CHwRZKxE|video on deMause}}
*[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=DeMause%2C%20Lloyd On-line repository of deMause' books]

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