Psychohistory - > Group Psychohistory - which seeks to understand the motivations of large groups in history.

From: Roger L. Bagula (rlbtftn_at_netscape.net)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:11:57 GMT

    Areas of Psychohistorical Study

There are three inter-related areas of psychohistorical study.

   1. The History of Childhood - which looks at such questions as:
         1. How have children been raised throughout history
         2. How has the family been constituted
         3. How and why have practices changed over time
         4. The changing place and value of children in society over time
         5. How and why our views of child abuse and neglect have changed
         6. Why there is still denial in modern societies about the
            reality of child abuse
   2. Psychobiography <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychobiography> -
      which seeks to understand individual historical people and their
      motivations in history.
   3. Group Psychohistory - which seeks to understand the motivations of
      large groups in history.

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The actual term "psychohistory" was coined by Isaac Asimov
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov> as the name for a fictional
science in his Foundation Trilogy
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Series> universe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory 

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