Robert Jay Lifton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 258162 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Jay Lifton |
| PRENOMES | Robert Jay |
| SOBRENOME | Lifton |
| ASSINATURA | LIFTON R J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 328 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1956 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
War Begets War
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours
In 1954, Robert Oppenheimer was subjected to what was rightly called “an extraordinary American inquisition” under the name of a security hearing. Despite having served his country so devotedly in heading the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, he was now publicly humiliated, condemned as a security risk, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to step down from his government consultancies. Those hearings were skewed and manipulated in McC…
A Brief Conversation with Robert Jay Lifton
Can Proteanism be Grounded
Commemoration and Meaning
Disaster commemoration serves as a moment to remember victims and honor survivors. In the case of 3.11, commemoration works differently. As a slow disaster, with radiation exposure and evacuation at the center of the story, 3.11 is not yet over. This places special importance on commemoration as a moment for memory, but also for ongoing commitments to research, justice, and health interventions for survivors
On Becoming Witnessing Professionals
I came to view my work with Hiroshima survivors in 1962 as not only a scientific study but a form of bearing witness to what the bomb did to human beings in that city. I tried to bring professional knowledge and experience to that effort, to become what I later called a witnessing professional. Nuclear and climate issues interacted in that early study, and have continued to be inseparable for all of us. I draw upon examples of witnessing professi…
Owning reality
Evil, the Self, and Survival
The Nazi Doctors
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Beyond Invisible Walls
Editor's Introduction 2. Legacy of Trauma and Loss, Jacob D. Lindy 3. Hungary: Replacing a Missing Stone, Nora Csiszer and Eva Katona 4. German Democratic Republic: Absorbing the Sins of the Fathers, Heike Bernhardt 5. Romania: A Time of Yielding, Ion Cucliciu 6. Russia: An Emptiness Within, Fyodor Konkov 7. Croatia: Old Scars, New Wounds, Vasko Muacevic 8. Armenia: Aftershocks, Levon Jernazian and Anie Kalayjian 9. Invisible Walls, Jacob D. Lind…
Destroying the World to Save It
Three Paths to Enlightenment about Aum Shinrikyō
Destroying the world to save it
Looks at Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subways, and examines the mind of the man behind the religion
Hiroshima in America
Trauma and Dreams
In this volume, Deirdre Barrett brings together the study of dreams and the psychology of trauma. A distinguished group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers—among them Rosalind Cartwright, Robert Lifton, and Oliver Sacks—consider here how trauma shapes dreaming and what the dreaming mind might reveal about trauma.
Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide
Journal Article Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide Get access Roger W. Smith, Roger W. Smith College of William and MaryWilliamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Markusen, Eric Markusen Southwest State UniversityMarshall, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Jay Lifton Robert Jay Lifton The City University of New Yo…
The Genocidal Mentality
The Genocidal Mentality
The Nazi Doctors
A Nuclear Age Ethos
Indefensible Weapons
The Social Psychology of Civil Defense
Responses of Survivors to Man-made Catastrophes
Indefensible Weapons
The authors contend that the political and psychological power of nuclear weapons make them even more dangerous than their destructive power alone. They explore the political and psychological dependencies on nuclear weapons, which they call the disease of nuclearism. With this medical approach, they examine both the disease and the symptoms, which can be fatal. Section I, by Lifton, deals with the psychological problem of imagining the reality o…
Interview
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
The Nazi Doctors
See
Indefensible Weapons
The authors contend that the political and psychological power of nuclear weapons make them even more dangerous than their destructive power alone. They explore the political and psychological dependencies on nuclear weapons, which they call the disease of nuclearism. With this medical approach, they examine both the disease and the symptoms, which can be fatal. Section I, by Lifton, deals with the psychological problem of imagining the reality o…
The Nazi Doctors
The Spirit of Chinese Politics
Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide
Journal Article Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide Get access Roger W. Smith, Roger W. Smith College of William and MaryWilliamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Markusen, Eric Markusen Southwest State UniversityMarshall, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Jay Lifton Robert Jay Lifton The City University of New Yo…
Destroying the World to Save It
Individual Patterns in Historical Change
Man not only lives within history; he is changed by it, and he causes it to change. This interplay between individual lives and wider historical forces is many-sided, erratic, seemingly contradictory, charged as it is by capricious human emotions. Yet there are common patterns-shared images and styles of imagery-which men call forth in their efforts to deal with the threat and promise of a changing outer and inner world. These patterns can someti…
Thought Reform of Chinese Intellectuals
The Chinese Communist program of szu-hsiang kai-tsao or "thought reform"is unique both as a social experiment and as a laboratory for cross-cultural psychiatric study. Applied to Westerners and Chinese, to professors, students, and peasants, it combines a remarkably widespread dissemination with impressive emotional force and depth
Thought Reform of Chinese Intellectuals
Can Proteanism be Grounded
Owning reality
The Genocidal Mentality
The Social Psychology of Civil Defense
The Postwar War
Contending expressions of survival are examined in terms of their implications for the American post‐Vietnam experience. The author draws on his work with rap groups of antiwar veterans to describe the struggles of these men with their personal and the country's socio‐political survivor's mission. He contrasts the responses and strategies of the antiwar enlisted personnel to those of the POW returnees (mainly military elite), considers that most …
Mao Tse-Tung & the ‘death of the revolution
Psychoanalysis and History
Thought Reform of Chinese Intellectuals
The Chinese Communist program of szu-hsiang kai-tsao or "thought reform"is unique both as a social experiment and as a laboratory for cross-cultural psychiatric study. Applied to Westerners and Chinese, to professors, students, and peasants, it combines a remarkably widespread dissemination with impressive emotional force and depth
Thought Reform of Chinese Intellectuals
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
Reason, Rearmament, and Peace
Research Article| January 01 1962 Reason, Rearmament, and Peace: Japan's Struggles with a Universal Dilemma Robert J. Lifton Robert J. Lifton Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Memorandum (Institute of Pacific Relations, American Council) (1932) 1 (11): 12–16. https://doi.org/10.2307/3023635 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Faceboo…
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. A Study of "Brainwashing" in China
Individual Patterns in Historical Change
Man not only lives within history; he is changed by it, and he causes it to change. This interplay between individual lives and wider historical forces is many-sided, erratic, seemingly contradictory, charged as it is by capricious human emotions. Yet there are common patterns-shared images and styles of imagery-which men call forth in their efforts to deal with the threat and promise of a changing outer and inner world. These patterns can someti…
Psychoanalysis and History
On Phychology and History
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America in Vietnam—The circle of deception
Mao Tse-Tung & the ‘death of the revolution
Death in Life
Vietnam
The Spirit of Chinese Politics
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
History and Human Survival
Revolutionary Immortality
Trans-action Books
History and Human Survival
The sense of immortality
On Death and the Continuity of Life
Unlimited technological violence and absurd death have replaced sexual repression as an urgent theme for contemporary man. Psychoanalytic theory, developed during the late Victorian era, must be re-evaluated within the context of current historical forces. In attempting to understand the impact of extreme violence and mass death, the writer finds it more useful to speak of a process of psychic numbing rather than repression. This numbing process …
The Postwar War
Contending expressions of survival are examined in terms of their implications for the American post‐Vietnam experience. The author draws on his work with rap groups of antiwar veterans to describe the struggles of these men with their personal and the country's socio‐political survivor's mission. He contrasts the responses and strategies of the antiwar enlisted personnel to those of the POW returnees (mainly military elite), considers that most …
Home from the War
The reissuing of Robert Jay Lifton's moving and important 1973 study of Vietnam veterans can serve as a timely reminder of how easily and how much we forget. Lifton's study, furthermore, raises the of what we as a society have learned from the pain, guilt, and rage of these men, and from our own unease over a small, undeclared war that we lost. Lifton's work is based on two years5 intensive participation in weekly groups55 with veterans that met …
From Analysis to Formation
The Life of the Self
Psychology (32 obras) · Political science (28 obras) · Sociology (27 obras) · Law (20 obras) · Psychoanalysis (16 obras) · History (13 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Criminology (10 obras) · Japanese History and Culture (8 obras)