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Nov 26, 2017 · NEW YORK ― Robert Jay Lifton has spent his life trying to understand some of the most unfathomable milestones of the 20th century. The famed psychiatrist and author started his career in the mid-1950s studying Chinese government-sponsored brainwashing, or “thought reform.”. In the ’60s, he began interviewing survivors of the atomic ...
Nov 12, 2023 · The psychoanalyst and author Robert Jay Lifton on what seventy years of studying both the victims and the perpetrators of horror has taught him about the human will to survive. By Masha Gessen ...
Oct 10, 2017 · —The Washington PostFrom "one of the world’s foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate changeOver his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of ...
Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, “presents us with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task ever required of ...
The sale includes 29,500 net acres in the Barilla Draw Field of the Permian Basin, which is expected to increase Permian Resources' output by an estimated 15,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day ...
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Oct 1, 2020 · Robert Jay Lifton, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1970, is Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at CUNY.He is the author of The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival (2017), Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (1968), The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (1986), and Losing Reality: On Cults ...
Nov 23, 2017 · ―James Carroll, author of House of War "In the 1980s, Robert Jay Lifton gave us the term 'psychic numbing,' to explain how people coped with the threat of nuclear annihilation by denying or at least discounting it. While denial might be beneficial to an individual, it was potentially catastrophic to society if it led us to fail to act to address the threat.
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