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William L. Langer, “Infanticide: A Historical Survey,” Hislory of Childhood Quarterly l(1974):353-65; “Further Notes on the History of Infanticide” History of Childhood Quarterly 2(1974): 129-134.

5I. “The Formation of the American Personality Through Psychosp’eciation: Appendix: On the Demography or Filicide,” The Journal of Psychohistory 4(1976):l-30, reprinted in deMause, Foundations of Psychohistory.

Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1977); Italy (Storia deIt’infanzia.

Seymour Byman, “Child Raising and Melancholia in Tudor England,” The Journal of Psychohistory 6(1978):85.

The single review or Davis which considered his evidence-quite fairly in my opi-nion-was by the psychoanalyst Miles ~. Shore, “‘The Psychogenic Theory of History,” Journal of lnrerdisciplinary History 9(1979):5 17-523.

Engrewood Cliffs: Prentice-flail, 1980.

New York: Basic Books, 1981 (Published in paperback as The Drama of the Gifted Child); Alice Miller, For Your Own Good: hidden Critelty in Child-Rearing and rho Roots of Violence.

Robert A. Paul, “Review of Lloyd deMause’s Foundations of Psychohistory, “The Journal of Psychoanajylic Anthrr4:oh,gy 5(1982):469.

New York: Far-rar/Straus/Giroux, 1983; Alice Miller, Thou StraIt Not Be A ware.’ Society’s Betrayal of the Cit lid.

Joseph Illick, one of the contributors to The History of Childhood, centered much of his 1985 paper on his understandable disappointment that more has not been published in childhood history in the years that had passed since the book had been published.

Ardyce Masters, “The Doll as Delegate and Disguise,” The Journal of Psychohistory I3(1986):293-307

Karen Taylor, “Blessing the House: Moral Motherhood and the Suppression of Physical Punishment,” The Journal of Psychohistory l5(1987):431-54.

The Journal of Psychohistory 16 (2) Fall 1988

Danielson KE, Dauer SC (1990) Celebrate poetry through creative drama.

Malchiodi CA (1998) Understanding children’s drawings.

Nicastro EA, Velasco-Whetsell M (1999) Children’s fear.

Potter CN (2000) He just bumps into things: recognizing and reporting signs of child abuse.

Bandura A (2001) Social cognitive theory: an agentic perspective.

10). According to Sorin (2005) children undoubtedly need to be protected from harm in personal disasters like abuse.

Concerning childhood, Chaffin (2006) states that “Throughout history children have been raised, in ways ranging from nurturing to indifferent to savage” (p.

Spinak J (2007) When did lawyers for children stop reading Goldstein, Freud and Solnit? Lessons from the twentieth century on best interests and the role of the child advocate.

187). Yet, cultures which practiced infanticide could be otherwise highly supportive of children in care and warmth of upbringing (Milner as cited in Tort, 2008).

deMause, an investigator in psychohistories, has extensively researched traditions of childrearing in different times and cultures (Juan and Stevens, 2009), theorizing that certain epochs in history show general characteristics in the development of a society.

64–65). Smith (2011) added a third, democratic approach to the image of childhood: the Athenian child, to give children growing up in modern times a “voice and choice” (p.

As Briggs (2012) explains, Australian legislation slowly developed into a “complex system” (p.

The overall rather negative view of humanity’s development has been positively advanced by Simmons (2014), who has added a 7th mode to deMause’s six modes (Table 1).

Research has found that children have limited agency in educational settings to “express, reflect and develop their own perspectives” (Hilppö et al. (2016). However, a variety of efforts are made to encourage children to make decisions or handle problems, individually or in groups.

Coady M (2017) Feminism and the development of early childhood education in Australia.

The healing effect of drawing helps traumatized children, due to entering a time and space of liminality (Haring et al., 2018). Comparable to the flow state or the mindfulness meditation experience, time, space and the Self seem to dissolve.

Kail RV, Cavanaugh JC (2019) Human development.