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  • Lloyd deMause & Psychohistory
  • Articles (Selected Pre 2005)
    • “Heads and Tails”: Money as a Poison Center
    • A Suicidal Embrace: War as Self-Punishment and Suicide
    • On Writing Childhood History
    • Teaching Psychohistory
    • The Childhood Origins of the Holocaust
    • The History of Child Abuse
    • The Phallic Presidency
    • The Political Consequences of Child Abuse
    • The Universality of Incest
    • Yugoslav Childhood
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    • Reagan’s America
      • Author’s Foreword
      • Chapter 1: The Shooting of Ronald Reagan
      • Chapter 2: Creating the Iranian Crisis
      • Chapter 3: The Making of a Fearful Leader
      • 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
    • Foundations of Psychohistory
      • 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
      • Chapter 7: The Fetal Origins of History
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The Association for Psychohistory

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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