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The fourth emperor of Rome, Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known in history as Claudius, lost his father when he was only one year old and was raised by his grandmother Livia and his mother Antonia. As a child, Claudius was ridiculed by the court jesters and his sister, and was described by his mother, Antonia, as a "Freak" was defined as "a human being that nature started but could not complete". His education was left to the care of a semi-literate teacher who had once been a mule shepherd. The disorders that Claudius experienced since his birth have been examined in modern sources and include polio (poliomyelitis), spinal cord inflammation (transverse myelitis), eating disorder (bulimia nervosa), cerebral palsy (congenital cerebral palsy), sudden physical and vocal tics (gilles de la tourette syndrome). Diseases such as mitochondrial diseases (mitochondrial cytopathies) and contraction disorders (dystonias) have been suggested. These possible illnesses and the physical and psychological reflection of the events he experienced on Claudius' psychology have been tried to be discussed in detail in this study. As a result of scientific research, these people who lived in a certain period of history are considered as a human being, apart from their history, and the conditions, events and underlying reasons they lived in at that time; history, psychology and related medical sciences, … etc. It indicates the importance of conducting an interdisciplinary study jointly by many branches of science, such as, in terms of evaluating the study from different perspectives and making correct analysis.

There is proposed the analysis of conceptual foundations in researching of Poles’ national character on materials of Julian Leopold Ochorowicz (1850-1917) scientific heritage connected with philosophical and pedagogical implications of his ideas. Ochorowicz’s contribution to interdisciplinary approach on Poles’ national character is emphasizing. The heuristically potential of this approach is explicated using reconstruction and systemizing of his views, which had played a significant role in determining intentionality in discussions on the matter «What philosophy do Poles need?” for the successful self-statement in their national being. Critically evaluating of this experience there is combined with verifying of his theoretical assumptions that should be actual also in Ukrainian social and cultural contexts. Ochorowicz belongs to the group of outstanding Polish scholars with wide scientific interests and original achievements. This article presents his research on history perceived as a collective psychological process. In Poland, Ochorowicz should be regarded as a precursor of psychohistory. An important role in his conception is played by the theory of the so-called residual symptoms, on the basis of which he developed the concept of Poles’ national character with its educational implications. The question about the rudiments of our national character sharpens in border situations, in which those traits, previously presented in a declarative form, are verified. The strength of a nation is encoded in the irreal sphere, i.e. in the sphere of values around which people group themselves.

This article proposes that organization is a fundamental element of groups and societies and may be best understood by using psychohistorical organizational analysis. Western social science and popular thought has limited organization to discussions of urbanization, industrialization, and corporations. We, however, cast our organization net far wider to encompass all forms of cooperatively organized human activities ranging from family groups and preliterate hunter-gatherer bands to contemporary complex public and private organizations and societies. This broader perspective suggests that psychohistorical analysis can contribute to better understanding of all organizational dynamics. We will explain how psychohistory can be adapted to organizational analysis. Several brief organizational examples and one longitudinal forty-year organizational example are provided to ground the discussion of theory in practice. We conclude that non-traditional psychohistorical institutions, transgenerational trauma, and contributions from anthropology, must also be considered to be a part of psychohistorical inquiry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The split personality of Vladimir Putin draws parallels with the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. From our current knowledge of developmental psychology, especially prenatal psychology, we can recognize and describe traumatizing conditions in early childhood as a background for such personality splits. These traumatizing childhood conditions experienced by Putin are in an interplay and inner resonance with the traumatizing childhood conditions in Russia. It is essential to acknowledge how early childhood traumas have shaped our collective history, as evident in the violent and exploitative structures of domination across societies. By examining the significance of early childhood conditions, we can gain a deeper understanding of human nature and work towards a more empathetic and peaceful world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the reception of Judith Brett's landmark study, Robert Menzies' Forgotten People, on its publication in 1992, a moment when many Australians living under neoliberal economic reform and recession were rethinking what it meant to be middle class. Brett argued that Menzies thought it meant individuals living the best lives they could, lives defined by independence and the possession of superior moral qualities. Her account resonated with contemporary Australian experience and remains highly influential. Yet within political history, reviews were mixed as traditionalists resisted the psychoanalytic theory Brett employed to understand Menzies' public language. Her strategic defence of her interdisciplinary approach has ultimately helped to keep the idea of moral liberalism alive in political discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the face of all the limitations and criticisms regarding the recognition of consciousness as a psychosocial "singularity experience", the construction of "Dissoanalysis Theory: Psychocommunal Therapy" centered on "multiple consciousness system", "multiple reality perception" and "multiple memory phenomenon", that is, a new societal reality, has become an indispensability. Based on trauma and dissociation studies, i.e. modern psychotraumatology paradigms and modalities, the "Dissoanalysis Theory", structured by Ozturk with the aim of creating a functional society consisting of empathetic, prudent, just, peaceful, and capable individuals, made it possible for the emergence of "dissoanalytic psychohistory" from a psychosocial perspective. Dissoanalytic psychohistory is intervention therapy for psychosocial crises! "Dissoanalytic psychohistory" structured by Ozturk within the framework of the dissoanalytic school is defined as a branch of science that does researches on childhood traumas, psychosocial perceptions of childhood, chronic oppressions, child-rearing styles, dysfunctional families, dysfunctional generations, intergenerational transmission of trauma, intergenerational transfer of psychopathology, psychocommunal dissociation, dominant leaders and mass violence and develops strategies focused on especially preventing childhood traumas and wars. Dissoanalytic psychohistory, emphasizing that the neutralization of dysfunctional generations and the future can be achieved by the administration of "psychocommunal therapy" of all nations in the world, is an original psychology theory that consists of a holistic synthesis of modern psychotraumatology and psychohistory paradigms with the study of intergenerational transmission of trauma and intergenerational transfer of psychopathology. Dissoanalytic psychohistory, which is the dissoanalysis of the traumatic history of humanity and the construction of a new societal reality, both analyzes and integrates the dissociative components of societies with absolute reality. Dissoanalytic psychohistory creates development-oriented shifts, "dissociative revolutions", "integrative psychosocial movements" and "mass predictions" and even functional and healthy new society profiles by raising awareness of masses of human about their actions. [Med-Science 2023; 12(1.000): 303-18]

This paper focuses on the key tendencies in writing the “history of madness” and of psychiatry in the 20th (and early 21st) century. It contributes to the historiography of the (natural) sciences, namely to the relationship between the natural and social sciences: medicine, psychology, and historiography. It aims to show perspectives in relation to psychiatric and psychological science (view from inside vs. outside), i.e., interpretation from the perspective of history of a specific field written by psychiatrists (or psychoanalysts), and from the perspective of concepts developed by social sciences, including historiography. It also shows how the relationship of madness and psychiatry differs when it is an object of study of medicine and psychiatry and when it is an object of study of social sciences, humanities, and history. The first part of this study demonstrates to what extent history written by “insiders” of the professional community was part of the field and its auto-legitimizing strategies. This applies mainly to internalist, “modernist” interpretations of the history of psychiatry, but also to their critics (the anti-psychiatry movement). The subchapter devoted to psychohistory, which sought to “psychiatrise history” and was usually promoted by psychoanalysts with a social science or humanities background, presents a contrasting approach. From the 1970s and 1980s onwards, as the humanities, social sciences and history entered the field of medical history, the perspective changed – the non-specialist ‘lay’ view, the externalist ‘outside’ view, made it possible to look at the history of madness, psychiatric disciplines, and practices without a priori assumptions about what the ‘right’ knowledge and scientific ‘truth’ should be. This helped to broaden the “psychiatric field” to include a more complex social, cultural, and political context, a background of political interests, social practices and the broader ideological context that affected shaping of “psychiatry” (including the patient’s view). Moreover, it enriched the “psychiatric field” with phenomena, opinions and practices considered by internalist history as “unsuccessful” or “pseudo-scientific” or “uninteresting”. This allowed for a “secondary historicization” of the psychiatric discipline, which anchored the whole process more firmly in the background of a specific epoch without the necessary link to the contemporary state of knowledge and “scientific truth” and resulted in a more consistent historicization of this “scientific truth” itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's age of global dissociation, it has become necessary to deal with the social and clinical aspects of dissociation, which is a "psychosocial denial experience" in terms of ideational, emotional, relational, behavioral and sensory aspects. In dysfunctional nations experiencing psychosocial denial, democracy unfortunately functions as the majority's freedom to make wrong decisions. The freedom of the majority to make wrong decisions creates "dissociative and misanthropic masses" and causes "universal violence circulation" and despotism to prevail. Dissoanalysis and "Ozturk's Pervasive and Reversible Dissociative Fusion Theory" define the universal circulation of violence as a reversible "dissociative violence oscillation" associated with trauma, which spreads from individual to society and from society to individual. The submissive mode associated with the experience of connecting to their oppressors and dictators is contagious; it spreads from traumatized and dysfunctional individuals to dissociated and dysfunctional societies, creating fused interpersonal relationships and both conformist and sadomasochistic masses. The dissoanalytic school defines the phenomenon of dissociation, which is most closely related to chronic, complex and cumulative traumatic experiences, which can transform from the individual to the social dimension and from the social dimension to the individual dimension in the face of oppression, and even be experienced simultaneously in the individual and social dimensions, both in relational and psychosociopolitical contexts. Dissoanalytic psychohistory, which continues its development rapidly in parallel with the principles of dissoanalysis and modern psychotraumatology, has far outstripped the stable and dogmatic schools of psychiatry, psychology, and history with its integrative solution-oriented approaches and effective psychosocial prevention strategies towards the phenomenon of trauma-related dissociation and individual and mass obedience cycles against oppression. In this original article, Ozturk defined the phenomenon of "objectification trap", "controlled human syndrome" and "shared dissociative identity disorder" as the triple pillar of fused bilateral relations dominated by reversible dominative and submissive modes from the perspective of dissoanalysis theory and dissoanalytic psychohistory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the face of all the limitations and criticisms regarding the recognition of consciousness as a psychosocial "singularity experience", the construction of "Dissoanalysis Theory: Psychocommunal Therapy" centered on "multiple consciousness system", "multiple reality perception" and "multiple memory phenomenon", that is, a new societal reality, has become an indispensability. Based on trauma and dissociation studies, i.e. modern psychotraumatology paradigms and modalities, the "Dissoanalysis Theory", structured by Ozturk with the aim of creating a functional society consisting of empathetic, prudent, just, peaceful, and capable individuals, made it possible for the emergence of "dissoanalytic psychohistory" from a psychosocial perspective. Dissoanalytic psychohistory is intervention therapy for psychosocial crises! "Dissoanalytic psychohistory" structured by Ozturk within the framework of the dissoanalytic school is defined as a branch of science that does researches on childhood traumas, psychosocial perceptions of childhood, chronic oppressions, child-rearing styles, dysfunctional families, dysfunctional generations, intergenerational transmission of trauma, intergenerational transfer of psychopathology, psychocommunal dissociation, dominant leaders and mass violence and develops strategies focused on especially preventing childhood traumas and wars. Dissoanalytic psychohistory, emphasizing that the neutralization of dysfunctional generations and the future can be achieved by the administration of "psychocommunal therapy" of all nations in the world, is an original psychology theory that consists of a holistic synthesis of modern psychotraumatology and psychohistory paradigms with the study of intergenerational transmission of trauma and intergenerational transfer of psychopathology. Dissoanalytic psychohistory, which is the dissoanalysis of the traumatic history of humanity and the construction of a new societal reality, both analyzes and integrates the dissociative components of societies with absolute reality. Dissoanalytic psychohistory creates development-oriented shifts, "dissociative revolutions", "integrative psychosocial movements" and "mass predictions" and even functional and healthy new society profiles by raising awareness of masses of human about their actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article was inspired by a sense of the urgency of current events about the intersection of individual and sociopolitical pathology and about fascism as a multilayered distortion of reality. It takes the position that fascism is pathological on both levels and that psychopathology, exacerbated by social tensions and increasing uncertainty, is an appropriate lens through which to look at fascism. It explores the boundaries of fascism as a category in contrast to a universal trait of fluctuating intensity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The causes of war lie in the interplay between male instincts of rivalry and defense with traumatically conditioned archaic feelings of existential threat and the resulting desire for destruction and power. The example of the current war in Ukraine is understood by examining the interaction of Putin's traumatic childhood history with the traumatic history of Russian society. Then, the complex motivational background of warlike behavior in general is explained in eight theses. As a result of the reflections, it is argued that the way to promote a more peaceful society is to improve early childhood socialization conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The popular science fiction series Foundation penned by Isaac Asimov explores the idea that the course of the future of societies is not only predictable but can be engineered as well. In Asimov’s fictional world, a multidisciplinary science called psychohistory combines mathematics, psychology, and history to predict future events. Nicolas Rashevsky, the father of mathematical biology, lent credibility to the existence of universal principles underpinning human cultural evolution using mathematical models. His vision remains to be fully realized, as our capacity to predict and even engineer is very fragmented. Two main obstacles are a misunderstanding of the role of mathematical models and the limitations of current datasets. Recent advances in complex systems research, computer-based simulations, and large-scale databases, are paving the way towards fully developing a mathematical theory of human history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous studies suggest that the origin of political psychology and political psychology in Chile would have been generated with the work Balmaceda y el Parlamentarismo en Chile, Un estudio de psicología política chilena, by the politician and historian Ricardo Salas Edwards, at the beginning of the 20th century, shifting back the historical line from clinical and social psychology as a consequence of the psychological disorders provoked by the military dictatorship in the mid-1970s. But in addition, through a content analysis, we argue that political psychology owes its origin to the psychohistorical character of this narrative. In this sense, this article analyzes the contributions of Salas Edwards to the emergence of Political Psychology from his understanding of the political events of 1891. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the process of reconstructing the history of Chinese psychology, psychohistory once drew little attention. Although applying psychological tools to historical studies has not been a new research method for Chinese historians, when it comes to psychohistory in its modern sense, it inevitably sounds exotic and novel to Chinese academia. However, the significance of psychohistory, especially the one with practical relevance, should not be underestimated. Thus, the history and the deficiency of psychohistory need to be clarified. Based on the macro-historical logic, the development of psychohistory in China can be recounted and divided into four stages, namely (1) before 1902, the pre-scientific stage of psychohistory, (2) 1902–1949, the introduction of modern psychohistory, (3) 1949–1978, the tortuous and lopsided development of psychohistory, and (4) 1978–present, the revival of diverse approaches in psychohistory. The possibilities of psychohistory as we find in such a process, in all its reality, reside in the fact that it could combine the history of ideas with reality and the history of society with ideas, which would undoubtedly improve our understanding of the intertwinement of the human psyche and the social mechanisms, in brief, the historical dynamics. In addition, psychohistory could also help solve psychological problems that the populations in modern times are currently facing. Despite all of these virtues, in terms of indigenization (particularization), generalization (universalization), trans-regional communication, and disciplinary institutionalization, there is still some way for psychohistory in China to go.

The paper discusses the results of the application of the theories of D. Winnicott and K. Horney on historical data. The data was acquired by analysis of the book texts published in the range of 1918 and 1943 by Emanuel Moravec – a Czech collaborator in World War II. The total number of pages of the analyzed materials counts as 4062. The data was completed by the major life events of Moravec, as they were pictured in his biographies. Using the object-related and neo-psychoanalysis theories the paper outlines: a) possibilities of application of the depth theories on historical data; b) results acquired by application of the mentioned theories; c) possibilities of psychobiography to explain the behaviour of historical popular figures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite his infamous legacy, Adolf Hitler remains one of the most significant and well-studied figures of the last century, with well over 120,000 books and articles about him, and including his recorded speeches, writings, letters, memos, and directives, as well as anecdotes about him in publications about other Nazi figures. Yet, there remain tremendous gaps in our understanding of Hitler. This psychohistorical study partially addresses the gap and attempts to obtain a finer grained description of Hitler's progressively narcissistic behaviors and their outcomes. It utilizes historical data, Grapsas' episodic model of narcissist interactions (Grapsas, et. al., 2020), Williamson's (1964) "managerial utility" function, and Chatterjee and Hambrick's (2007) archival/unobtrusive measurement schema as an analytical framework. The authors, who are not clinicians, treat narcissism as a personality trait rather than a clinical diagnosis. Emerging at the right historical moment with a popular message, Hitler relied on his natural oratory skills, studied impression management, and took personal control of party and government funds to facilitate his rise to power. Early successes provided further referent power. Hitler received little of what might be critical feedback from his in-group of unquestioning sycophants, and that little bit was apparently drowned out by the noise of his cult-like following. Rejecting inconvenient evidence, he narcissistically blamed others when failures occurred. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "theory of dissoanalysis", structured on an axis that has the closest interactional dynamic with each individual and social element of the "multiple consciousness system" and "multiple memory phenomenon" conjugated with traumatic experiences, has its scientific roots in modern psychotraumatology studies conducted by Ozturk, a trauma therapist and a psychohistorian. Dissoanalysis makes significant scientific contributions to the development of both effective psychotherapy methods and innovative psychotraumatology and psychohistory movements in the field of "trauma and dissociation". "Dissoanalysts" are defined as "trauma therapists" who have professional competence in psychotraumatology, psychotherapy and suicidology, undertake and conduct the treatment of trauma-related psychiatric diseases, especially dissociative disorders, and complete them with a high average of success. As a modern theory of psychotraumatology, the psychosocial mission of dissoanalysis is to ensure that a society of psychologically integrated individuals prevails in the intergenerational process. The main purpose of dissoanalysis is, on the other hand, to create a development-oriented, normal and functional society composed of compassionate, fair, peaceful, empathetic, innovative and prudent individuals. Unless individually and socially originated "trauma denials" and "denial traumas" are neutralized by the psychosocial dissoanalysis method, chronic wars, colonial policies, dissociogenic oppressive systems, violent negative child-rearing styles, dysfunctional families and dysfunctional generations will continue to prevail at maximal rates and in all nations of the world! Ozturk, who developed the theory of dissoanalysis, emphasizes that an era of "mass dissociation", which spreads from individual to society, has begun on behalf of today's oppressive systems and the directed people controlled and managed by dominant leaders. Every moment when intergenerational development submits or evolves to intergenerational fossilization is a milestone and starting point for wars and genocides. Individuals and societies that are controlled and managed by traumatizing can be freed from captivity, oppression and abuse through "dissociative revolutions" that they will initiate by reactivating the healthy parts of themselves. Dissociative revolutions are all actions taken by individuals and societies, which have been ruled by oppression and traumatization for many years, in order to cut their hypnotic bonds with their fascist leaders and to liberate them, with these actions a psychosocial consciousness alliance is achieved and a new development-oriented human and society profile is created. As long as the dissoanalysis of "traumatized individuals whose smiles have been stolen" and "communities with shattered memories" cannot be carried out, no nation or any psychogenic mass can get rid of its borderline components, which are encompassing and focused on chronic violence; let alone gaining a direction towards an integrative life organization and in this context, the "theory of dissoanalysis" is the "psychocommunal therapy" itself!... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, oppression is addressed by various disciplines on the basis of modern psychotraumatology and psychohistory paradigms. From a psychotraumatological perspective, oppression, as negative occurrences that force obedience that individuals and societies have to encounter at certain rates, is characterized by dissociative experiences and post-traumatic stress reactions. According to psychohistory, on the other hand, oppression may maintain its control and obedience-oriented domination on both individuals and societies on the basis of violence-focused as well as unempathetic negative child-rearing styles and intergenerational transmission of traumas. Oppression, which is also a socially negative life experience, may force individuals to obey by both traumatizing and dissociating them. In postmodern societies, oppression can be defined as providing absolute control and dominance over individuals and societies by creating fear of chaos over individuals and societies with excessive or variable use of digital communication networks by dominant/authoritarian leaders. Especially since digital network platforms make cyber anonymity exceedingly possible, the masses who use these platforms excessively and uncontrollably can both easily overcome the interpersonal boundaries that they would not normally violate, and also lose their ability to grasp the reality or truth in the face of highly contradictory stimuli they are exposed to. Individuals who are unable to realize, grasp and comprehend reality may begin to dissociate themselves in the face of oppression over time. As a strategy of control, obedience and manipulation, oppression continues to exist with its dominance over individuals who show conformity to strict rules on a pathological basis in order to ensure the legitimacy of the system, which does not have the ability to stretch. Being able to effectively fight against oppression, which is a social traumatic experience, can be achieved by neutralizing violence-oriented and unempathetic negative child-rearing styles, as psychotraumatology -especially psychohistory- emphasizes, and by adopting empathetic child-rearing styles with a positive nature that are "away from oppression and control". The aim of this study is to evaluate the dissociogenic components of oppression and obedience in terms of psychotraumatology and psychohistory. [Med-Science 2021; 10(3.000): 1059-68]

Already in 1912, Sabina Spielrein addressed the transforming and antagonistic movements of life that appear from conception in her work 'Destruction as the cause of coming into being'. Her writings form a bridge between Freud and Jung, as they establish the relationship between biological experiences and archetypes. In 1974 Lloyd deMause examined the intrinsic link between primary relational experiences, brain development and the system of beliefs and values of the Sapiens species. He outlined the parallel between the transformation of child education and cultural evolution. Reflecting this theoretical approach, in child psychotherapy we have the peculiar opportunity of resorting to experiences during pregnancy and birth, to gain a deeper understanding of self-expressions in spontaneous drawings, dreams and sand scenes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the genealogy of a form of collective intelligence that cultivates the democratic social character, understood as a style of subjectivity that is implicitly dedicated to the experience of living both individually and collectively in what H. Hermans has termed the "challenge" zone of "the dynamic interplay of I-positions within the self," and practiced in negotiating the boundary-crossings implicit in the "increasing heterogeneity of I-positions" that results from an ever-increasing "interface of globalization and localization" that is the post-modern situation. The historical emergence of a democratic psychoclass is linked with an emergent form of culturally mediated subjectivity that acts to "recover the continuum between our 'first nature' and our 'second nature', our natural world and our social world, our biological being and our rationality, leading to a society organized under a new reality principle. I then explore a form of education that has been present in latent or manifest form as long as democratic values and aspirations have been present in the Western social and political imaginary, and argue that it is intimately linked to the same impulse that this new reality principle represents. Its evolutionary potential is fed by what psychohistorian L. DeMause identified as a dialectical advance in childrearing "modes," whereby adults enter into dialogue with childhood forms of intentionality, resulting in the reinvention of school as an adult–child collective that acts as a facilitating environment for the emergence of a psychoclass dedicated to dialogue, democracy and ongoing personal and social reconstruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Ethical relations to the past demand a conscious confrontation of the past. In this sense we will examine the close connection between past events and moral concepts and their influence on current moral discourses. We presume a weak moral objectivism, since strong moral objectivism fails to take account of relevant particulars of a given context, now or in the past, and since it might carry a tendency to dogmatism and rigidity. A stringent moral relativism, on the other hand, can lead to the trivialisation and denial of the violation of universal ethical values. From a philosophical standpoint, it will be argued that moral judgments about past actions are appropriate and necessary, followed by reflections on the significance of universalist and relativist positions in social science discourses and from psychoanalytic social psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

1960’lardan itibaren psikotarih aracılığıyla, tarih biliminin geçmişi anlamak için tarihsel olay ve olgulara yöneltilen “nasıl” sorusunun cevabı psikolojik motivasyon merkezli olarak aranmaya başlanmıştır. Psikanalizin kurucu babası Freud yaygın bir şekilde ilk psikotarih (ve psikobiyografi) çalışmasının da sahibi olarak kabul edilmektedir. Erik Erikson’un Young Man Luther (1958) adlı eseri ise ilk akademik psikotarih çalışması olarak kabul edilmiş ve Erikson psikotarihin kurucu babası olarak görülmüştür. Freud’dan Erikson’a, Lifton’dan Kohut’a tarihe çeşitli psikoloji yönelimleriyle yaklaşan bir alan olarak iktisat, sosyal ya da kültürel tarih kadar geniş kapsamlı bir etkinliğe ulaşamamışsa da bugüne kadar psikotarihin varlığını korumuş ve hatta farklı yaklaşımlar geliştirebilmiş olması bile kanımızca alan üzerine odaklanmak için yeterli bir gerekçedir.

This paper revisits and reevaluates the Eriksonian branch of psycho-historians, whose academic influence peaked in the early 1970s before falling largely out of sight by the start of the twenty-first century. Why did what I argue was an unwarranted eclipse occur? The foremost figures in this loose grouping were Erikson himself, Robert J. Lifton, Kenneth Keniston, and Robert Coles. What can the comparatively new field of psychosocial studies usefully learn and integrate from these mostly neglected predecessors? I examine how this widespread academic amnesia set in and explain the relevance of the Eriksonian tradition, relate ways in which psycho-historians trailblazed psychosocial studies, address the importance of an intrinsic "activist ingredient" in such ventures, and argue that both psychohistory and psychosocial studies stand to benefit greatly from such an intellectual exchange. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, oppression is addressed by various disciplines on the basis of modern psychotraumatology and psychohistory paradigms. From a psychotraumatological perspective, oppression, as negative occurrences that force obedience that individuals and societies have to encounter at certain rates, is characterized by dissociative experiences and post-traumatic stress reactions. According to psychohistory, on the other hand, oppression may maintain its control and obedience-oriented domination on both individuals and societies on the basis of violence-focused as well as unempathetic negative child-rearing styles and intergenerational transmission of traumas. Oppression, which is also a socially negative life experience, may force individuals to obey by both traumatizing and dissociating them. In postmodern societies, oppression can be defined as providing absolute control and dominance over individuals and societies by creating fear of chaos over individuals and societies with excessive or variable use of digital communication networks by dominant/authoritarian leaders. Especially since digital network platforms make cyber anonymity “exceedingly” possible, the masses who use these platforms excessively and uncontrollably can both easily overcome the interpersonal boundaries that they would not normally violate, and also lose their ability to grasp the reality or truth in the face of highly contradictory stimuli they are exposed to. Individuals who are unable to realize, grasp and comprehend reality may begin to dissociate themselves in the face of oppression over time. As a strategy of control, obedience and manipulation, oppression continues to exist with its dominance over individuals who show conformity to strict rules on a pathological basis in order to ensure the legitimacy of the system, which does not have the ability to stretch. Being able to effectively fight against oppression, which is a social traumatic experience, can be achieved by neutralizing violence-oriented and unempathetic negative child-rearing styles, as psychotraumatology -especially psychohistory- emphasizes, and by adopting empathetic child-rearing styles with a positive nature that are "away from oppression and control". The aim of this study is to evaluate the dissociogenic components of oppression and obedience in terms of psychotraumatology and psychohistory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Janus is acknowledged as an important representative of pre- and perinatal psychology, but at the same time one-sidedness in his text (2021) is pointed out: He stands entirely in the tradition of the Enlightenment, views history as the history of progress, and, in line with Lloyd de Mause's »Psychohistory«, projects psychoanalytic thought onto past epochs. In doing so, he is committed to a nomothetic ideal of science that can only do limited justice to the phenomenon of psychotherapy. However, Janus' proposals for the reform of psychoanalysis are appreciated, although the author cannot endorse his apodictic evaluations, but speaks of possible perspectives, which are all at once legitimate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to understand the background of the so-called »crisis of psychoanalysis«, to win out of this new perspectives for further developments. Three complexes seem to be important: A tendency to remain bound to the conditions of the beginnings. That had the consequence, that innovative aspects were not integrated in a constructive manner, but were carried out by dissidences or splittings. This happened especially in relation to the understanding of the early mother relation. This was already the case in the first dissidences of Adler and Jung. In a paradigmatic way this happened with the exclusion of the experiential meaning of prenatal and birth experiences in relation to withdrawal of Rank from the psychoanalytic movement. This had the consequence that the research in this field happened outside the established psychoanalysis and was constituted as »prenatal psychology«. Because the cultural formations in essential respect are determined by early prespeech experiences, the withdrawal of Rank as the essential representative of psychoanalytical cultural psychology in early psychoanalysis meant an elementary loss and a reduction of the scope of cultural psychology in psychoanalysis. Outside the established psychoanalysis psychohistory was constituted. Psychohistorical research could clear, that the ego is not an ahistorical entity but was a result of psychobiological processes of an interplay of always new inventions and corresponding new ego-formations. These developments had the consequence, that the broad varieties of scenic enactments of early experiences in relational situations were explored outside of the traditional psychoanalytic settings in psychodrama, gestalt therapy, different regression therapies, imaginative therapy, art therapy, and others. Also the collective psychological enactments of early prespeech experiences on the level of political and social processes were largely explored outside the traditional psychoanalysis in the frame of psychohistory. The paper argues for a reflexion of these connections and problems, to revive the genuine potential of psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The author reflects on his memories of psychoanalyst Lloyd deMause. He relates knowing deMause since 1977 expressing his gratitude for deMause's mentorship, generosity, enthusiasm and dedication to psychohistory. He cites "The History of Childhood" as a witness of deMause's continuous development if his thought about infancy, childhood and family life.

A personal reminiscence of Lloyd deMause and his contributions to psychohistory. It examines deMause's ideas about the tasks and domains of psychohistory, as well as his conceptions of childrearing, group-fantasy, wars, and leaders as poison containers. His career is compared with the journey of the mythical Greek hero Odysseus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author relates his memories of psychoanalyst Lloyd deMause. He mentions how deMause's theoretical explanations helped him understand the outcomes of behavior that introduced a profound dimension of personality. He recalls being introduced to psychohistory and meeting deMause and representatives of the psychohistory community. He cites his involvement in translating deMause's book "The Emotional Life of Nations."

The author ponders on his memories of psychoanalyst Lloyd deMause as a psychohistorian. He credits deMause for establishing a psychohistorical community. He mentions his interest in psychoanalysis and psychohistory and the creation of "History of Childhood Quarterly: The Journal of Psychohistory." He enumerates the theories deMause developed and worked on such as helping mode parenting, psychoclasses, social alters and war as sacrifice.

The author relates his memories of psychoanalyst Lloyd deMause as a great leader. He remembers deMause as a person with fantastic personality and his approach to the relation between history and psychoanalysis. He mentions how he was enlightened by deMause's "Fetal Origins of History." He describes deMause as a great host, gentle leader of his family and his flock of psychohistorians and a very busy intellectual.

The author focuses on evolution and psychohistory as a tribute to and appreciation of the scope of the work of psychoanalyst Lloyd deMause. He compares deMause's seminal work in "Foundations of Psychohistory" to Loren Eiseley's presentation of human evolution describing how a dream animal, a creature, was produced on the third planet from a star in the Milky Way galaxy. He explores the themes in deMause's work, sacrifice, childrearing modes, psychoclass and empathic child care.