Lloyd deMause's brilliant and revolutionary ideas are acclaimed by readers and critics alike. This latest addition to his field of psycho-history argues that child rearing and interpersonal expressions of love have profound consequences for the national and international situation. In discussing the role of mothers in political progress, our psychological dependency on our enemies, or how inadequate parenting and overabundant technology interact to produce the crises of our age, The Emotional Life of Nations offers an urgent challenge to Western society. It suggests that we must radically alter our individual senses of power and culpability in parenting, and seek to help each other in raising the next generation, because they will have their turn to revisit the experiences of their own childhoods on the world.