The Freedomain Radio Interview: Lloyd deMause

Lloyd deMause is the Director of The Institute for Psychohistory, founder of the International Psychohistorical Association, and author of seven books on psychohistory, four of which can be freely downloaded at http://www.psychohistory.com.

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[givebirthathome]

@givebirthathome the beginning of the exploitation of oil as fuel.

[givebirthathome]

Unfortunately, along with some good information, and a general conclusion I of course agree with ..ie. child abuse leads to society-wide endorsement of violence..

deMause criticizes some good child-rearing practices.

Children love sleeping with their parents (family bed), its safe, and it facilitates infants being breast-fed at night. The family bed children I've seen are happy and secure.

And jump in production in 1880's due to women's movements? I don't think so. More likely

[givebirthathome]

Michel Odent, obstetrician turned midwife, is someone to check out in terms of civilizational effects of birth practices. He believes that birth practices became warped in almost all known cultures, exactly because they made the children more warlike; the cultures who did not distort birth were wiped out by more war-like cultures.

[djlookwood]

@catchtheshill History is the documented story of Civilisation which i sonly 15,000 years of or existence, a drop in the ocean of time.... in 90% of pre-Civilisation Societies rape and absue is exceedingly rare, because those Societies were and are founded upon empathy, are non-heirarchical (there are 350 million indigenous peoples, though two thirds of them are being traumatised by the Dominant Culture and incidences of absue are rising in those Communities at the edges of Civilisation)

[catchtheshill]

The entire scope of this man's agenda is to get the males subscribing to the age old notion that women are inherently evil and are not to be trusted and must at all cost to the females be controlled. Blaming wars and all the horrors of the planet are due to one thing: women beating their kids. Give me a break!! Women have been beaten, raped, murdered, slaughtered en-mass throughout history. We sure want to move forward, not back.

[catchtheshill]

80 to 90 % of American and UK are beaten regularly? I don't think so. This guy is so Off in what he is saying, but it would obviously appeal to the disenfranchised males in West society that are not coping well with the fact that women are moving to determine their own lives based on what they want instead of what males want. He is actually inciting the growing anger in men, based on false and misleading "statistics".

[Allisone1]

Fabulous! Absolutely fabulous when the truth is known and told!

[godapologizing2you]

Thank you for making this interview, I have just added the link to Wikipedia article on Lloyd DeMause -> title=Lloyd_deMause&action=his­torysubmit&diff=365836852&oldi­d=360685717

[methusela238]

The thought is interesting but not universally applicable.

[abcrane]

thank the universe for this man!