Psychohistory is a transdisciplinary field of knowledge that represents an amalgam of psychology, history, psychoanalysis, political psychology, anthropology, ethnology, and related social sciences, a
Rembrandt's painting of the sacrifice of Isaac (Gen.22). Psychohistory holds that ritual child sacrifice once occurred in most cultures.
Lloyd deMause was an American lay psychoanalyst and social historian, best known for his pioneering work in the field of psychohistory.
Psychohistory
…met at the annual American Historical Association conferences until 1999; its newsletter developed into The Psychohistory Review (1972–1999). In 1973, Lloyd deMause founded The History of Childhood Quarterly: The Journal of Psychohistory, renamed The Journal of Psychohistory in 1978; he also edited the anthology…