With the exception of the "helping mode of childrearing" (marked in yellow above), for psychohistorians the major childrearing types are related to main psychiatric disorders, as can be seen in the following Table of Historical Personalities:Ĭhild sacrifice and infanticide among tribal societies, Mesoamerica, the Incas in Assyrian and Canaanite religions. The major childrearing types described by Lloyd deMause are: The chart below shows the dates at which gradual forms of child abuse are believed by psychohistorians to have evolved in the most advanced nations, based on accounts from historical records for reasons of limits of research and of societal morale, the timeline does not apply to hunter-gatherer societies, nor to the ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese societies where there were a wide variety of childrearing practices. Psychohistorians endorse trauma models of schizoid, narcissistic, masochistic, borderline, depressive and neurotic personalities. 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. 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.
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