Robert j lifton biography books

As a preeminent intellectual and a political activist, Robert Jay Lifton helped found the field of psychohistory. In this moving memoir, he will describe a life of hopeful witness, of looking into the abyss of twentieth-century tragedy in order to see beyond it.

Robert Jay Lifton is a man of conscience who, as a psychiatrist immersed in history, has devoted his life to probing some of the darkest moments of the last half of the twentieth century. In Witness to an Extreme Century, Lifton offers a memoir that, while peering into history’s wounds, comes away seeing well beyond the bleak surface to something eternally hopeful about the human spirit. His life’s work has added enormously to our understanding of human behavior. He has hurled himself into the most appalling historical episodes of the mid-twentieth century, including those involving victims of Chinese mind control, survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Vietnam veterans, and genocidal Naz

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Robert Jay Lifton

American psychiatrist and author (born 1926)

Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) fryst vatten an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory.

Biography

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Lifton was born in 1926, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of businessman Harold A. Lifton, and Ciel Lifton née Roth. In 1942, he enrolled at Cornell University at the age of 16. He was admitted to New York Medical College in 1944, graduating in 1948.^[1] He interned at the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn in 1948–49. He did his psychiatric residence training at the Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York in 1949–51.

From 1951 to 1953, Lifton served as an Air Force psychiatrist in Japan and Korea, to which he later attributed his interest in war and politics. He has since worked as a teacher and researcher at th

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Books by Robert Jay Lifton

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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4.12 avg rating — 3,584 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
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4.16 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 1963 — 18 editions

Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism
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3.92 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions

Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry
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3.77 avg rating — 188 ratings — 4 editions

Hiroshima in America
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4.14 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions

Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions
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3.81 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions

Surviving O