psychohistorian

He was a psychohistorian; the last and greatest of them all.

The assaults on me were precisely because I'm a psychohistorian.

"I'm a psychohistorian and, at the present time, that is a dirty word.

Being a historian, which I am, after a fashion, is worlds different from being a psychohistorian.

The portly psychohistorian, clearly uncomfortable, held a blaster rifle in two hands.

"I somehow think, Sire, that even the cleverest psychohistorian could not manage that."

"I am not a psychohistorian.

Dors was no expert psychohistorian.

"That young psychohistorian?

Shneidman was an active psychohistorian, meaning he sought historical perspective by applying psychoanalysis to historical figures and events.

He had been lifted out of that position by Seldon made into a mathematician and an intellectual-more than that, into a psychohistorian.

Raych said, "And Wanda is the first of the type you know about and you intend to make a psychohistorian out of her?"

The Convention brought together many people including experts Richard A. Falk, expert on the international law of war crimes and Robert Jay Lifton, a psychohistorian.

The male psychohistorian still had youthful features, but these had grown a bit haggard and pudgy in the years since he had arrived on Trantor and become an influential member of the Fifty.

Hari Seldon, the visonary psychohistorian of the "Foundation" trilogy, may well be the model for Mr. Gingrich's own career, although, of course, he may also be the Mule, the charismatically destructive individual whom the Seldon plan could not anticipate.

And even if one progressive right-thinking judge has proclaimed you faultless, what of the millions-perhaps billions-of other average citizens who see not a pioneering psychohistorian striving to preserve his civilization's glory but a raving lunatic shouting doom and gloom for the great and mighty Empire?

In it, I described how the psychohistorian, Hari Seldon, established a pair of Foundations at opposite ends of the Universe under such circumstances as to make sure that the forces of history would bring about the second Empire after one thousand years instead of the thirty thousand that would be required otherwise.

Now, however, psychohistory was finally reaching the point where predictions, of a sort, could be made and, as Seldon crossed the grounds in his passage from his office (First Minister) to his laboratory (psychohistorian), he was uneasily aware of the likelihood that this era of peace might be coming to an end.

At the 67th science-fiction world convention in Montreal, Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate in Economics, mentioned Hari Seldon, a central character in Foundation who was a psychohistorian, as his inspiration to study Economics since it's the closest thing to Psychohistory, according to P. Krugman.