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Oct 15, 2019 · A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control In this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political ...
John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Yale University. Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is 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.
Jun 25, 2020 · Lifton R.J. (1970). Introduction: On becoming a psychohistorian. In History and Human Survival: Essays on the Young and Old, Survivors and the Dead, Peace and War, and on Contemporary Psychohistory. New York: Random House.
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In this unique and important volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual, proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political movements and fanatical religious cults may be much closer than anyone thought. Exploring the most extreme manifestations of human zealotry, Lifton highlights an array ...
Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry. Robert Jay Lifton. The New Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-61097-499-5. Hardcover, 211 pages. Reviewed by Joseph Szimhart 2020 June. By 1982, a few years before I entered the ranks of cult interventionists commonly known as “deprogrammers,” Lifton’s “Chapter ...
Jan 12, 2019 · In 1968, Robert Jay Lifton published Revolutionary Immortality, a short but provocative and insightful book. This book gets very little attention, but it is due for a renaissance or revival, as there are certain aspects of it conducive to the present zeitgeist, particularly that of what might be called “Late Trumpism.”. Some analysis follows.
Oct 15, 2019 · Robert Jay Lifton returns to his classic works on the dangers of extremist cults and updates them with new material." ― Shelf Awareness "At the core of this work is the problem of the ownership of our mind, a problem thrown into relief at those historical moments when it is challenged―by ideology, totalitarian politics, disinformation, cults, even social media.
