Lloyd deMause
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Lloyd deMause was an American lay psychoanalyst and social historian, best known for his pioneering work in the field of psychohistory.
Lloyd de Mause
Swaddling
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Swaddling is an ancient practice of wrapping infants in blankets or similar cloths so that movement of the limbs is tightly restricted. Swaddling bands were often used to further restrict the infant.
Lloyd deMause
…in which outright infanticide gave way to selective exposure of unwanted newborns. Abandoning Routine infanticide replaced by abandonment; prolonged swaddling; wet-nursing; children placed in monasteries or apprenticeships; fosterage. Associated by deMause with early Christian societies; he argued that the…
Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Madonna and Child (1319) depicts swaddling bands
Votive offerings depicting swaddled babies from Agia Triada (Crete), Bronze Age, 2600-2000 BC, Heraklion (Iraklion), Crete. Archeological museum Iraklion
Swaddled baby and bad mother, 1505–1510, detail from The Temptation of St. Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516). Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon
The Cholmondeley Ladies and their swaddled babies. c. 1600–1610