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Prominent author: The Climate Swerve was reviewed in the Washington Post and excerpted in the New York Times. Lifton has been a contributor to the New York Times for over fifty years. He has appeared on many NPR shows, including Fresh Air. He has appeared in many TV and feature documentaries, including having been interviewed by Stephen Spielberg’s team for a Discovery Channel show on the Japanese suicide cult Aum Shinrikyo and for a film by E...

2022 Hardcover Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Lifton's research for the book began in 1953 with a series of interviews with American servicemen who had been held captive during the Korean War. In addition to interviews with 25 Americans, Lifton also interviewed 15 Chinese who had fled their homeland after having been subjected to indoctrination in Chinese unive...

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This powerful study, the result of ten years of painstaking research and extensive interviews, casts new light not only on the origins of the Holocaust, but explains how physicians, sworn by oath and conviction to ease suffering, were transformed from healers to systematic killers.

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.

Longlisted for the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing "Well worth the read. . . . [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars." -The Washington Post From "one of the world's foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate change Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winnin...

From a National Book Award winner ("Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima") and "one of the world's foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers) comes a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate change..

From a National Book Award winner ("Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima") and "one of the world's foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers) comes a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate change..

The unique human awareness of our own mortality enables us to ensure our perpetuation beyond death through our impact on others. This continuity of life has been profoundly shaken by the advent of wars of mass destruction, genocide, and the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. In "The Broken Connection, " Robert Jay Lifton, one of America's foremost thinkers and preeminent psychiatrists, explores the inescapable connections between dea...

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 centu...

Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent "brainwashing” by the Communist Chinese government. Robert Lifton constructs these case histories through personal interviews.

In Japan, 'hibakusha means 'the people affected by the explosion'----specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, Robert Jay Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90, 000 survivors. Lifton sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand----and be motivated to avoid----nuclear war.

2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Lifton's research for the book began in 1953 with a series of interviews with American servicemen who had been held captive during the Korean War. In addition to interviews with 25 Americans, Lifton also interviewed 15 Chinese who had fled their homeland after having been subjected to indoctrination in Chinese universities. F...

I medici nazisti erano delle belve quando fecero ciò che fecero? O erano degli esseri umani?": è questa la domanda a cui si propone di rispondere questo libro, un'inchiesta sconvolgente che ha aperto una prospettiva inedita sul Terzo Reich e le sue perverse atrocità. Basata su interviste a vittime e carnefici dei lager, la ricerca di Lifton penetra con rara incisività i meccanismi psicologici che hanno reso possibile nei medici nazisti la sost...

This new edition of Revolutionary Immortality coincides with two interesting rediscoveries in American intellectual life-that of China and that of death. The book happens to be about both.

Preface1. The Changing Psychological Landscape2. History and the Self3. America, the Protean Nation4. Odd Combinations5. Sources of Flux and Form6. Poise and Equipoise7. Enduring Connections8. Life Stories9. The Fundamentalist Self10. The Dark Side11. The Protean PathNotesIndex

Since earliest history, prophets and gurus have foretold the world's end, but only the nuclear age has enabled a megalomaniac guru with an apocalyptic vision to bring his prophecy to pass. Robert Jay Lifton offers a case in point in this chilling exploration of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subways.With unprecedented access to former Aum members, Lifton has produced a pathbreaking study of the inner life of...