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
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
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
"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
