Psychohistory is a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe which combines history, sociology, etc., and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people, such as the Galactic Empire. It was first introduced in the five short stories (1942–1944) which would later be collected as the 1951 novel Foundation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_%28fictional%29
post by Big bag of assorted nigger parts at Oct 8,2012 2:51pm
post by slar you morbid? at Oct 8,2012 7:56pm
funny you post this ben, i JUST started reading the first book, so far pretty awesome.
I finished Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation this summer, finishing all seven of the Foundation series. The OG trilogy is def the way to start though
post by ark at Oct 9,2012 2:44pm
i read the first one years ago. it's funny that historical psychoanalysis is now a generally accepted science