The Broken Connection
Lifton, Robert Jay, MD (Cambridge Health Alliance)
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...