Media track record: Lifton’s books have received major review attention and he has been interviewed by the likes of Bill Moyers, Terry Gross and Amy Goodman. Platform: This book began as an op-ed essa
In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in the Nazi genocide. Now updated with a n
National Book Award winner and renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton reveals a world at risk from millennial cults intent on ending it all.Since the earliest moments of recorded history, prophets an
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
This book explores the psychological conditions that promote the human potential for evil, relating medical killing to broader principles of doubling and genocide
A personal account by the Harvard Medical School lecturer, political activist and co-founder of psychohistory shares his insights into some of the past half-century's most disturbing events as experie
A personal account by the Harvard Medical School lecturer and political activist traces his explorations into the psychological sources and consequences of some of the past half-century's most disturb
No one is better equipped than psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton-a leading scholar of thought control and mass violence- to make sense of the extreme moment. From Hiroshima survivors to Nazi doctors, fro
"We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically fro
A prolific writer on death and change, Lifton (psychiatry, City U. of New York) offers a single, open-ended approach to experiencing life and death both as individuals and as peoples imbedded in our p
"Skillful and compassionate" (Newsweek), a groundbreaking study on the human cost of war. Nominated for the National Book Award. With a new preface from the author on the war in Iraq. In Home from th
