Others have dismissed deMause's theories and motives arguing that the emphasis given by Psychohistory to speculation on the psychological motivations of people in history make it an undisciplined field of study.

Called forth to stand trial on Trantor for allegations of treason ( for foreshadowing the decline of the Galactic Empire ), Seldon explains that his science of Psychohistory foresees many alternatives, all of which result in the Galactic Empire eventually falling.

Psychohistory is based on group trends and cannot predict with sufficient accuracy the effects of extraordinary, unforeseeable individuals ; and, as originally presented, the Second Foundation's purpose was to counter this flaw.

The Wellfleet Psychohistory Group, as it became known, focused mainly on psychological motivations for war, terrorism and genocide in recent history.

* History and Human Survival: Essays on the Young and the Old, Survivors and the Dead, Peace and War, and on Contemporary Psychohistory, Random House, 1970.

Psychohistory depends on the idea that, while one cannot foresee the actions of a particular individual, the laws of statistics as applied to large groups of people could predict the general flow of future events.

Psychohistory has one basic, underlying limitation which Asimov postulated for the first time on literally the last page of the final book in the Foundation series: psychohistory only functions in a galaxy populated only by humans.

Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events.

* Psychohistory The ill-fated attempt to merge psychology with history, replacing historical method.

Another theory that has similarities to Psychohistory is " Generational Dynamics " proposed by John J. Xenakis, where he proposes, " Generational Dynamics is a historical methodology that analyzes historical events through the flow of generations, and uses the analysis to forecast future events by comparing today's generational attitudes to those of the past ".

* Psychohistory, the real ( non-fictional ) study of the psychological motivation of groups in historical and current events

Psychohistory derives many of its concepts 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 human societies can change between infanticidal and non-infanticidal practices and has coined the term " early infanticidal childrearing " to describe abuse and neglect observed by many anthropologists.

Some historians, social scientists and anthropologists have, however, argued that their disciplines already describe psychological motivation and that Psychohistory is not, therefore, a separate subject.

A psychogenic mode in Psychohistory is a type of mentality ( or psychoclass ) that results from, and is associated with, a particular childrearing style.

A black-and-white version of the chart appears in Foundations of Psychohistory.

Psychohistory remains a controversial field of study, and deMause and other psychohistorians face criticism in the academic community.

Psychohistory uses a plurality of methodologies, and it is difficult to determine which is appropriate to use in each circumstance.

For examples of the more frivolous and distasteful sort of psychohistory, see The Journal of Psychohistory.

For more serious and scholarly attempts to understand the psychological dimension of the past, see The Psychohistory Review.

The principal center for psychohistorical study is The Institute for Psychohistory founded by Lloyd deMause which has 19 branches around the globe and has for over 30 years published the The Journal of Psychohistory.

It publishes Psychohistory News and has a psychohistorical mail order lending library.

A course in Psychohistory has been taught at a four universities at the undergraduate level.

The Psychohistory Forum, which publishes the quarterly journal Clio ’ s Psyche, was founded in 1983 by historian and psychoanalyst Paul H. Elovitz.

* Lloyd deMause, founder of The Institute for Psychohistory.

* The Institute for Psychohistory.

Clio's Psyche and The Psychohistory Forum: Psychological and Historican Insight without jargon.

This was the reason for his causing the creation of Psychohistory and Gaia.

It later gained fame for housing Hari Seldon and his " Seldon Psychohistory Project.

Because of its ( relatively ) economically isolated location, Alberta relies heavily on transportation links with the rest of the world.

It also relies heavily on such literary devices as irony.

It is an example of pseudoscience because it relies heavily upon anecdotal evidence, stories and alleged sightings.

Northern Chinese Islamic cuisine relies heavily on beef, but rarely ducks, geese, shrimp or seafood, while southern Islamic cuisine is the reverse.

Cajun cuisine relies heavily on game meats, frequently smoked, supplemented with rice or corn.

The economy of the second largest country in Africa relies heavily on mining.

The economy of the second largest country in Africa relies heavily on mining.

Doom relies heavily on contrasts of lighting in building its atmosphere.

Classical Chinese relies heavily on allusion to a corpus of standard literary works to convey semantic meaning, nuance, and subtext.

The Open University of the United Kingdom ( UKOU ), established in 1969 as the first educational institution in the world wholly dedicated to open and distance learning, still relies heavily on print-based materials supplemented by radio, television and, in recent years, online programming.

His technique relies heavily on the satirical poem with a joke in the last line, thus drawing him closer to the modern idea of epigram as a genre.

E-prime is used in neuro-linguistic programming as a technique, and the theoretical basis of NLP relies heavily on Korzybski and Bourland's work.

However, it relies heavily on mutating list structure and similar imperative features.

Forth relies heavily on explicit use of a data stack and reverse Polish notation ( RPN or postfix notation ), commonly used in calculators from Hewlett-Packard.

The historical, continental rationalism expounded by René Descartes is often regarded as antithetical to empiricism, while some contemporary rationalists assert that reason is strongest when it is supported by or consistent with empirical evidence and hence relies heavily on empirical science in analyzing justifications for belief.

At times, he relies heavily on puns to express his true thoughts while simultaneously concealing them.

The Malaysian Armed Forces relies heavily on local military technology and high-tech weapons systems designed and manufactured by foreign countries.

The production features atmospheric music and lighting and relies heavily on mime, all to convey the immense vastness of the Gormenghast castle on the small stage.

Community radio often relies heavily on the music format because it is relatively cheap and generally makes for easy listening.

Allan Bomhard ( 2008 ), who relies more heavily on Afroasiatic and Dravidian than on Uralic, as do members of the " Moscow School ", reconstructs a different vowel system, with three pairs of vowels represented as:, as well as independent / i /, / o /, and / u /.

Italian-inspired cuisine is dominant in the New Haven area, while southeastern Connecticut relies heavily on the fishing industry.

Alexa's network relies heavily on a small number of browser software relationships, which makes the network more vulnerable to competition.

The playwright of this pageant breaks away from the traditional style of religious medieval drama and relies heavily on the works of Plautus.

Senegal still relies heavily upon outside donor assistance, however.