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Losing Reality

On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry

by Robert Jay Lifton ...

A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind controlIn this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political ... Read more

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A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind controlIn this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political
... Read more
Destroying the World to Save It

Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism

by Robert Jay Lifton ...

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 and gurus have foretold the world's end, but only in the nuclear age has it been possible for a megalomaniac guru with a world-ending vision to bring his prophecy to pass. Now Robert Jay Lifton offers a ... Read more

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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 and gurus have foretold the world's end, but only in the nuclear age has it been possible for a megalomaniac guru with a world-ending vision to bring his prophecy to pass. Now Robert Jay Lifton offers a
... Read more
Losing Reality

On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry

by Robert Jay Lifton ...

A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind controlIn this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political ... Read more

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A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind controlIn this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political
... Read more
The Climate Swerve

Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival

by Robert Jay Lifton ...

Longlisted for the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing"Well worth the read. . . . [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars."—The Washington PostFrom "one of the world’s foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate changeOver his long career as witness to an extreme ... Read more

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Longlisted for the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing"Well worth the read. . . . [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars."—The Washington PostFrom "one of the world’s foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate changeOver his long career as witness to an extreme
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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

by Bandy X. Lee, Robert Jay Lifton, Gail Sheehy, William J. Doherty, Noam Chomsky, Judith Lewis Herman M.D., Philip Zimbardo Ph.D., Rosemary Sword, Craig Malkin Ph.D., Tony Schwartz, Lance Dodes M.D., John D. Gartner Ph.D., Michael J. Tansey Ph.D., David M. Reiss M.D., James A. Herb M.A., Esq., Leonard L. Glass M.D., M.P.H., Henry J. Friedman M.D., James Gilligan M.D., Diane Jhueck L.M.H.C., D.M.H.P., Howard H. Covitz Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Betty P. Teng M.F.A., L.M.S.W., Jennifer Contarino Panning Psy.D., Harper West M.A., L.L.P., Luba Kessler M.D., Steve Wruble M.D., Thomas Singer M.D., Elizabeth Mika M.A., L.C.P.C., Edwin B. Fisher Ph.D., Nanette Gartrell M.D., Dee Mosbacher M.D., Ph.D., Stephen Soldz ...

As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him?That ... Read more

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As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him?That
... Read more

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Surviving Our Catastrophes

Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Robert Jay Lifton ...

From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination that ”cuts through the existential fog to reveal something like hope” (The Washington Post)In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton shows us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic.When the people ... Read more

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From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination that ”cuts through the existential fog to reveal something like hope” (The Washington Post)In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton shows us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic.When the people
... Read more
The Climate Swerve

Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival

by Robert Jay Lifton ...

Longlisted for the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing"Well worth the read. . . . [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars."— The Washington PostFrom "one of the world's foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate changeOver his long career as witness to an extreme ... Read more

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Longlisted for the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing"Well worth the read. . . . [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars."— The Washington PostFrom "one of the world's foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate changeOver his long career as witness to an extreme
... Read more

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Witness to an Extreme Century

A Memoir

by Robert Jay Lifton ...

On a fateful day in the spring of 1954 Robert Jay Lifton, a young American psychiatrist just discharged from service in the Korean War, decided to stay in Hong Kong rather than return home—changing his life plans entirely—so that he could continue work that had enthralled him, interviewing people subjected to Chinese thought reform. He had plunged into uncharted territory in probing the far ... Read more

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On a fateful day in the spring of 1954 Robert Jay Lifton, a young American psychiatrist just discharged from service in the Korean War, decided to stay in Hong Kong rather than return home—changing his life plans entirely—so that he could continue work that had enthralled him, interviewing people subjected to Chinese thought reform. He had plunged into uncharted territory in probing the far
... Read more
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

A Study of 'brainwashing' in China

by Robert Jay Lifton ...

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 who underwent “brainwashing” by the Communist Chinese government. Robert Lifton constructs these case histories through personal interviews and outlines a thematic pattern of death and rebirth, ... Read more

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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 who underwent “brainwashing” by the Communist Chinese government. Robert Lifton constructs these case histories through personal interviews and outlines a thematic pattern of death and rebirth,
... Read more
Death in Life

Survivors of Hiroshima

by Robert Jay Lifton ...

In Japan, “hibakusha” means “the people affected by the explosion” — specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand — and be motivated to avoid — nuclear war. This ... Read more

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In Japan, “hibakusha” means “the people affected by the explosion” — specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand — and be motivated to avoid — nuclear war. This
... Read more
Beyond Invisible Walls

The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients

Edited by Jacob D. Lindy, Robert Jay Lifton ...

Series series Series in Trauma and Loss
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Westerners watched those who had survived the era of Soviet trauma emerge into what we hoped would be the exhilarating light of freedom. What we have witnessed, however, is a slow and painful process of progression and regression, of hope and disillusionment, of unexpected psychological barriers: invisible walls that block the progress we had hoped for. In Beyond ... Read more

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When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Westerners watched those who had survived the era of Soviet trauma emerge into what we hoped would be the exhilarating light of freedom. What we have witnessed, however, is a slow and painful process of progression and regression, of hope and disillusionment, of unexpected psychological barriers: invisible walls that block the progress we had hoped for. In Beyond
... Read more
Death Work

Police, Trauma, and the Psychology of Survival

by Vincent E. Henry ...

In this fascinating new book, Vincent Henry (a 21-year veteran of the NYPD who recently retired to become a university professor) explores the psychological transformations and adaptations that result from police officers' encounters with death. Police can encounter death frequently in the course of their duties, and these encounters may range from casual contacts with the deaths of others to the ... Read more

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In this fascinating new book, Vincent Henry (a 21-year veteran of the NYPD who recently retired to become a university professor) explores the psychological transformations and adaptations that result from police officers' encounters with death. Police can encounter death frequently in the course of their duties, and these encounters may range from casual contacts with the deaths of others to the
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