Definition of "psychohistory" []

• A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era. (noun)

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• "Lithwick's thesis about Thomas's psychohistory is intriguing, and may well be right."
• "Therefore psychohistory is simply a view of actual history that allows one to observe and make predictions based upon the ebb and flow of logical knowledge."
• "Okay, it’s sci-fi, and psychohistory is about as realistic as the faster-than-light hyperdrives, but anyway, maybe even the view that social models can’t be too deterministic without determinism is wrong, and it actually has no implications at all."