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blackâand-white disaster footage of 1945 newsreels. Where was the center of this irony and at whose expense? I disliked the manipulation of my emotions by crude juxtaposings of disfigured women and department store mannequins with
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The Future of Immortality and Other Essays for a Nuclear Age
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The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat
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The Broken Connection: On Death and the Continuity of Life
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2786:Researchers of new religious movements and cults
1990:Hiroshima and the World: The Wisdom of Survivors
1787:"Looking Back at Hiroshima Makes Uneasy Viewing"
1308:, Basic Books, August 2000 (first edition 1986).
1705:"Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism"
1432:Last Aid: The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War
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2094:To Die, To Live, The Survivors of Hiroshima
1980:The End of Life: Exploring Death in America
1765:To Die, to Live: The Survivors of Hiroshima
1332:Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial
1251:Boundaries: Psychological Man in Revolution
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2087:Interview with Robert Jay Lifton
1562:Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society
1430:, Susanna Chivian, and John E. Mack)
1225:, Random House (New York City), 1968.
1223:Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
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1443:In a Dark Time: Images for Survival
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1982:"Doctors and Death" Transcript,
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2014:Talk on Apocalyptic Violence
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1947:Evil, the Self, and Survival
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1353:, Nation Books, 2003.
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1314:, Basic Books, 1987.
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1960:Doctors and Torture
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1639:Knowledge in Minds
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