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    • Reagan’s America
      • Author’s Foreword
      • Chapter 1: The Shooting of Ronald Reagan
      • Chapter 2: Creating the Iranian Crisis
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      • Chapter 4: Reaganomics as a Sacrificial Ritual
      • Chapter 5: Carrying Out the Sacrifice
      • Chapter 6: Trial Wars
      • Chapter 7: The Poison Builds Up
      • Chapter 8: The Poison Is Dumped Abroad
      • Chapter 9: Killing the Poisoned
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    • The Origins of War in Child Abuse
      • Chapter 1: The Killer Motherland
      • Chapter 2: Why Males Are More Violent
      • Chapter 3: The Psychology and Neurobiology of Violence
      • Chapter 4: War as a Sacrificial Ritual
      • Chapter 5: The Seven Phases of Going to War
      • Chapter 6: The Childhood Origins of World War II and the Holocaust
      • Chapter 7: Child Abuse, Homicide, and Raids in Tribes
      • Chapter 8: Infanticide, Child Rape and War in Early States
      • Chapter 9: Bipolar Christianity: How Torturing “Sinful” Children Produced Holy Wars
      • Chapter 10: Patriarchal Families and National Wars
      • Chapter 11: Global Wars to Restore U.S. Masculinity
      • Chapter 12: Ending Child Abuse, Wars and Terrorism
    • The Emotional Life of Nations
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Assassination of Leaders
      • Chapter 2: The Gulf War as a Mental Disorder
      • Chapter 3: The Childhood Origins of Terrorism
      • Chapter 4: Restaging Early Traumas in War and Social Violence
      • Chapter 5: The Psychogenic Theory of History
      • Chapter 6: War as Righteous Rape and Purification
      • Chapter 7: Childhood and Cultural Evolution
      • Chapter 8: The Evolution of Childrearing
      • Chapter 9: The Evolution of the Psyche and Society
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      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Evolution of Childhood
      • Chapter 2: The Independence of Psychohistory
      • Chapter 3: The Formation of the American Personality Through Psychospeciation
      • Chapter 4: The Psychogenic Theory of History
      • Chapter 5: Jimmy Carter and American Fantasy
      • Chapter 6: Historical Group-Fantasies
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Foundations of Psychohistory

FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOHISTORY
by
Lloyd DeMause

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface i
1. The Evolution of Childhood 1
2. The Independence of Psychohistory 84
3. The Formation of the American Personality
Through Psychospeciation
105
4. The Psychogenic Theory of History 132
5. Jimmy Carter and American Fantasy 147
6. Historical Group-Fantasies 172
7. The Fetal Origins of History 244
   
Index 33
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