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	Psychohistory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psychohistory derives many of its insights from areas that are perceived to be ignored by conventional historians as shaping factors of human history, in particular, the effects of childbirth, parenting practice and child abuse.
		Psychohistory holds that many political scientists and historians teach that social behaviour is usually for rational reasons rather than irrational ones, and that international violence is often instigated for economic gain.
		The actual term "psychohistory" was coined by Isaac Asimov in his Foundation Trilogy universe (1951 onwards), as the name for a fictional science able to mathematically predict the behaviour of large populations; see Psychohistory (fictional).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychohistory (1147 words)

	Psychohistory (fictional) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psychohistory is the name of a fictional science, which combined history, psychology and mathematical statistics,in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, to create a (nearly) exact science of the actions of very large groups of people, such as the Galactic Empire.
		The character responsible for the science's creation, Hari Seldon, established two postulates: that the population whose behaviour was modeled should be sufficiently large and that they should remain in ignorance of the results of the application of psychohistorical analyses.
		Psychohistory - the study of the psychological motivation of historical and current events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional) (578 words)

	Psychohistory Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events, combining the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present.
		Psychohistory derives many of its insights from areas that are ignored by conventional historians as shaping factors; in particular, childbirth, parenting practise, child abuse and willful neglect.
		Psychohistory was also the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy universe, which combined history, psychology and mathematical statistics to create a (nearly) exact science of the behavior of very large populations of people, such as the Galactic Empire.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/p/ps/psychohistory.html (706 words)

	Psychohistory : how could it be done ?
		The modern science of psychohistory began as a literary invention of Isaac Asimov.
		For the purposes of psychohistory, we must pay less attention to personal characteristics and generalize human behaviour, of course, but the basic principle is still there.
		Asimov's definition of psychohistory measuring the "reactions of large groups" may be good enough to give an idea of the scope, but it is imprecise in terms of concretes.
	www.objectivethought.com /articles/psychohistory.html (2203 words)

	Paul Halsall’s (Ancient) Annotated Bibliography on Psychohistory
		This bibliography is accented towards the psychohistory of the middle ages, and methodological essays.
		This was the seminal work in psychohistory by the analyst who invented the concepts of "identity" and "identity crisis".
		A useful collection of essays that examines the theory of psychohistory and Erikson's application of it in the case of Luther.
	falcon.arts.cornell.edu /prh3/grads/psychobib.html (1858 words)

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		It was for this purpose Isaac Asimow invented the theory psychohistory.
		Certainly psychohistory is concerned with whole societies and not individuals.
		Psychohistory seeks to identify the places where only a minute push by a single person brings about big changes.
	www.angelfire.com /oh3/vrag/silas/Psycho1.txt (1777 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Psychohistory is Coming,: ; Scientists Learning to Take Society's Temperature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His psychohistory exists in a loose confederation of research enterprises seeking equations that capture patterns in human behavior.
		Among the newest of the enterprises - and closest to the spirit of Asimov's psychohistory - is a discipline called sociophysics.
		Like Asimov's psychohistory, sociophysics is rooted in statistical mechanics, the math used by physicists to describe the big picture when lacking data about the details.
	www.redorbit.com /news/stories/2/2004/06/08/story101.html (1993 words)

	Unit Nine Section Three p 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		(2) Psychohistory is a genetic approach in the sense that it is historical It emphasizes the importance of origins, antecedents, and patterns of repetition.
		Psychohistory is oriented to dynamic psychology in which the present reality interacts at all times with and is related to the personal and social past of the person in the unconscious.
		Psychohistory recognizes that the fantasies of the subject, rather than meaning externally ascribed, constitute the relevant determinant of the emotional meaning of an event, symbol, or image.
	www.lcsc.edu /SS150/u9s3p1.htm (884 words)

	Technorati Tag: psychohistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the development of psychohistory, a new realm of competition between members of the human species opens up.
		The question remains whether psychohistory is possible, and whether it is practical.
		Psychohistory was a concept invented by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.
	technorati.com /tag/psychohistory (414 words)

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		Psychohistory, which combines psychoanalysis with the standards of historical research and evidence, is a relatively recent and still somewhat controversial methodology.
		The progress and problems of psychohistory are discussed in various articles and essays since the mid1950's, of which the following are examples: Lowenberg, Peter.
		Although psychohistory has been employed, more or less successfully, in biographical studies, its applicability to analysis of group and institution behavior has yet to be clearly demonstrated.
	www.carlisle.army.mil /usamhi/bibliographies/referencebibliographies/Psychology/history.doc (759 words)

	*spark-online.com >> version 23.0, AUGUST.2001 >> JOHN FRAIM
		Psychohistory, or the study of the individual and collective life using the methods of psychoanalysis and history, is itself a type of bricolage of disciplines existing in that twilight area between academic disciplines like sociology, history, biology, anthropology and psychology.
		Psychohistory suggests that a passionate denial of the influence of emotions on society has been at the center of the social sciences since their beginnings.
		Underlying much of the foundation for psychohistory is the need to move away from an ahistorical, drive-based psychology to a historical, trauma-based psychology that can be used in understanding historical change.
	www.spark-online.com /issue23/fraim.html (2524 words)

	Ian Young, 'The Stonewall Experiment; A gay psychohistory' Cassell UK/USA 1995, 312 pages ISBN 0-304-33270-0.
		As it has been written from the perspective of the 1990s, it is also, necessarily, a cultural investigation into the origins of a plague.
		As a poet, I have a particular interest in images, verbal messages and the psychic undercurrents - the unconsious myths and motivations that are reflected by cultural phenomena, and that frequently determine events.
		My concern is to contribute something to our understanding of what occurred in the little more than a decade between Stonewall and AIDS and in the plague years that followed.
	www.virusmyth.net /aids/books/iyintro.htm (727 words)

	Asimov's Psychohistory: Political science in another guise? (Signifying Nothing: Tell 'em about it, Joe-Joe!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Much of the plot of the series revolves around the invention and seeming perfection of “psychohistory” by Hari Seldon, and the consequences thereof.
		Asimov used the analogy of a gas, where whilst the motion of a single molecule is very difficult to predict, the mass behavior of the gas can be predicted to a high level of accuracy.
		Of course, there's always the case to be made that psychohistory was just a Grade-A McGuffin...
	blog.lordsutch.com /?entryid=307 (441 words)

	Adherents.com - Religious Groups in Literature
		He has so identified himself with psychohistory that if we were to get rid of him in too open a manner, we would entirely destroy the credibility of the science.
		Gaal Dornick, using nonmathematical concepts, has defined psychohistory to be that branch of mathematics which deals with the reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic stimuli.
		We've been blinded by Seldon's psychohistory, one of the first propositions of which is that the individual does not count, does not make history, and that complex social and economic factors override him, make a puppet out of him...
	www.adherents.com /lit/Na/Na_379.html (5517 words)

	Psychohistory: The Terrible Beauty of the Confluence of History and Psychology
		Lifton refers to one reason for this when he underlines the need for what he refers to as "articulated subjectivity" in the psychohistorian, or the deliberate intrusion of the investigator in an empathetic role in working with participants (Fontana et al.
		Poets have demonstrated a remarkable capacity for this but some of the best are writing their own psychohistory - their own reflections of their personal experiences of survival and of madness.
		Perhaps this too is the venue of the psychohistorian, who truly seeks to comprehend and vivify the intimate connection of trauma and history.
	www.aaets.org /arts/art25.htm (1256 words)

	Psychohistory at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This field of study is significantly outside the mainstream of the fields of history and psychology.
		Psychohistory holds that most political scientists and historians teach "realism" and "neo-realism"; ie.
		Some historians, social scientists and anthropologists have argued that their disciplines, do in fact, attempt to describe motivations in their respective fields of study and that Psychohistory is not a separate subject.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Psychohistory.html (824 words)

	Psychohistory: it's feasible? - Invision Power Board
		It would be like macroeconomics, which may be helpful to predict the outcome GDP of a given fiscal year but useless to project if a given basket of prices would fluctuate on a given date.
		The problem with this example is that psychohistory doesn't limit itself to a finite statement of likelihood as economic predictors do.
		Psychohistory requires much more accuracy, all while trying to measure an infinitely larger number of variables.
	www.asimovians.com /forum/index.php?act=ST&f=18&t=2225 (804 words)

	The Institute for Psychohistory
		Psychohistory, the science of historical motivation, combines the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present.
		The Institute is chartered by the State of New York as a not-for-profit educational corporation, The Association for Psychohistory, Inc., and for the past 33 years has published The Journal of Psychohistory, various books by the Psychohistory Press, and has been affiliated with the International Psychohistorical Association, which holds an annual convention.
		Issue of The Journal of Psychohistory by emailing your postal address to psychhst@tiac.net and it will be sent to you with a half-price invoice for $29 for four big quarterly issues.
	www.psychohistory.com (396 words)

	States' Rights Review: Lincoln and "Psychohistory"
		Psychohistory became an academic fad in the 1960s, when Doris Kearns was a graduate student in political science at Harvard.
		It is essentially an enterprise in which those who are not especially well trained in psychology (her degree is in political science) play amateur psychologist while authoring biographies of famous people.
		Not all psychohistory is as dubious as this, but a good bit of it is—including all of Doris Kearns Goodwin's books.
	statesrightsreview.blogspot.com /2005/11/lincoln-and-psychohistory.html (346 words)

	Book Review - Foundations of Psychohistory by Lloyd deMause
		Thus, to investigate the foundations of psychohistory, it is necessary to begin a study of how children were treated from earlier times until the present.
		The field of psychohistory is criticized by some as being trash and hogwash.
		The aim of all the study and analysis in psychohistory is so that we may be able to know consciously what it is we share unconsciously and thus one day could reduce the decisional holds that these continuing cycles of group fantasies have on us.
	www.primal-page.com /demause.htm (1471 words)

	Psychohistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the same way that psychology was extended to cover groups, producing the science of mob psychology, the idea of psychohistory is to extend the idea even further to cover the sweeping changes in group psychology over time to try and use the past and the present to anticipate the general path of the future.
		Because of an overlap in the subject areas, this science is connected with Cultural Morphology.
		The potential of psychohistory was dramatised in the "foundation" novels of novels of Isaac Asimov.
	www.xyroth-enterprises.co.uk /psychist.htm (85 words)

	Psychohistory
		Psychohistory must analyze the personality in convergence with the institutions, events, ideas and values of the time period.
		Lloyd deMause writes that psychohistory has a double burden of proof: It has to conform not only to the usual standards of historical research, but it also must be psychologically sound (p.
		Psychohistory is an important tool in examining the history of the family.
	members.tripod.com /~Kekrops/Psychohistory.html (610 words)

	Psychohistory Prediction of War
		To buy into psychohistory, you have to subscribe to some fairly wolly assumptions -- you have to agree that there are hidden messages embedded in our leaders' speeches, for instance, and that a nation's child-rearing techniques affect its foreign policy.
		For nearly four decades, he has been promulgating the gospel of psychohistory, and for nearly four decades he has met with disparagement and scorn.
		Psychohistory, according to its chief practitioner, asserts that nations have psychologies, just as individuals do; they have dreams and fantasies that can be analyzed; they have urges that arise from the childhood fears and traumas of their populace.
	www.subgenius.com /updates/X0022_Prediction_of_War.html (1086 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Psychohistory
		A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era.
		Each atom or molecule in a gas moves randomly so that the position or velocity of any one of them cannot be known.
		To Laura and pcmcgeer: just because psychology presently lacks Hari Seldon and psychohistory does not mean that it is not a valid science.
	fusionanomaly.net /psychohistory.html (711 words)

	Amazon.com: Foundations of Psychohistory: Books: Lloyd Demause (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I bought this thinking it was acontinuation or exploration of the concept of psychohistory invented in the 1930's by Isaac Asimov in his Robot novels and later expanded upon in his Foundation series.
		Psychohistory might be viewed as state-of-the-art psychoanalysis extended to large groups, but it goes far beyond the clinical model of psychoanalysis, into the everyday content of human emotions such as religion, the arts, nations and economic systems.
		The psychodynamic theories of Lloyd deMause are rooted in modern trauma theory, and to a lesser degree in the object relations of Klein, Bion and Fairbairn; however, he uses his exhaustive studies of group fantasy to achieve major strides beyond these.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/094050801X?v=glance (1299 words)

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