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Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory .
Sep 5, 2023 · ROBERT JAY LIFTON is a psychiatrist, National Book Award-winning author, and leading public intellectual whose subject has been holocaust, mass violence, and renewal in the 20th and 21st centuries. SURVIVING OUR CATASTROPHES. COMING SEPTEMBER 5 2023.
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ABOUT. “ One of the world’s foremost thinkers on why we humans do such awful things to each other. — Bill Moyers. A pioneer in the field of psychohistory, Dr. Robert Jay Lifton has written over twenty books and edited eight others, including many seminal works in the field such as the National Book Award–winning Death in Life: Survivors ...
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China is a non-fiction book by psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on the psychology of mind control. 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 .
- Paul F. Hanlon, Robert Jay Lifton
- 1961
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 8, 2023 · Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton has studied Auschwitz survivors, Vietnam war veterans, survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and people who'd been subjected to repression by the Chinese government....
The Advocacy and Detachment of Robert Jay Lifton - Clio's Psyche. Robert Jay Lifton, MD, recently moved to Harvard University after serving as Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at The City University of New York, and Director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
