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515:'s concern with the mass social effects of deep-seated drives, particularly attitudes toward death. The attendees include Erikson, Lifton, and Kenneth Keniston at the ‘continuous core’ of annual meetings, along with Bruce Mazlish, Norman Birnbaum, Alexander and Margaret Mitscherlich, Margaret Brennen, Peter Brooks, Robert Coles, Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph, Charles Strozier, Philip Rieff, Kai Erikson, Betty Jean Lifton, Norman Mailer, Howard Zinn, Frederick Wyatt, Noam Chomsky, Richard Sennett, Peter Gay, Ashis Nandy, Richard Goodwin, Harvey Cox, Frank Manuel, Leo Marx, Jonathan Schell, Raoul Hilberg, Sudhir Kakar, David Dellinger, Dan Berrigan, Wendy Doniger, Cathy Caruth, David Riesman, Steve Marcus, Richard Barnet, Daniel Ellsberg, Richard Falk, Hillel Levine, Aaron Roland and many others until it closed shop in 2015. 797:
black‐and-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 American wigs, of missing ears and honky‐tonk acts, of a river of corpses and night baseball. I thought the subtleties of Dr. Lifton's book were obscured by a piling‐on of images intended, and guaranteed, to shock. Mutilated bodies look the same, don't they, at death camps and at Dresden and at train wrecks? What, in this wretched century, is so special about Hiroshima?"
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In the Hiroshima and Vietnam studies, Lifton also concluded that the sense of personal disintegration that many people experienced after witnessing death and destruction on a mass scale could ultimately lead to a new emotional resilience—but that without the proper support and counseling, most
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wrote, "I didn't want to watch a whole hour of it. I got the point. I was suspicious of the cultivated European voices translating the words of the survivors. I resented the ominous music, the pregnant pauses, the mechanical alternations of scenes of modern Hiroshima in livid, living color with the
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In Lifton's opinion, though such attempts always fail, they follow a common pattern and cause predictable types of psychological damage in individuals and societies. He finds two common motives in totalistic movements: the fear and denial of death, channeled into violence against scapegoat groups
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can participate in atrocities without suffering lasting emotional harm, such crimes do not require any unusual degree of personal evil or mental illness. He says that they are nearly sure to happen given certain conditions (either accidental or deliberately arranged), which Lifton called
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and discussed the apparent "Superpower Syndrome" experienced by the United States in the modern era. In 2018 he also appears in the documentary Metamorphosis, about climate change and positive changes towards a more sustainable future.
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Lifton was one of the first organizers of therapeutic discussion groups on this subject in which mental health practitioners met with veterans face-to-face. He and Dr. Neff successfully lobbied for the inclusion of
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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
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in 1944, graduating in 1948. He interned at the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn in 1948–49. He did his psychiatric residence training at the Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York in 1949–51.
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psychiatrist in Japan and Korea, to which he later attributed his interest in war and politics. He has since worked as a teacher and researcher at the Washington School of Psychiatry,
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as an increasingly serious threat due to the proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons and totalist ideologies. He has, however, criticized the Bush administration's "
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Crimes of War: A Legal, Political-Documentary, and Psychological Inquiry into the Responsibilities of Leaders, Citizens, and Soldiers for Criminal Acts of War
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History and Human Survival: Essays on the Young and the Old, Survivors and the Dead, Peace and War, and on Contemporary Psychohistory
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merits the use of the word genocide. There is an effort to systematically destroy an entire group. It's even been conceptualized by
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In his later work, Lifton has focused on defining the type of change to which totalism is opposed, for which he coined the term
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to establish psychohistory as a separate field of study. A collection of research papers by the group was published in 1975:
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as so-called "ethnic cleansing." That term signifies mass killing, mass relocation, and that does constitute genocide.
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Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients
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by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s, August 10, 2010
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that set up to represent a metaphorical threat to survival, and a reactionary fear of social change.
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Several of his books featured mental adaptations that people made in extreme wartime environments:
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in 1952, and they had two children. She died in Boston on November 19, 2010, from complications of
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Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism
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was the first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in
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survivors would remain trapped in feelings of unreality and guilt. In her 2005 autobiography
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and warfighting doctrine made even mass genocide banal and conceivable. While not a strict
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Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments
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described Lifton's work with Vietnam veterans, along with that of fellow psychiatrists
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Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry
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Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions
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Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China
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Following his work with Hiroshima survivors, Lifton became a vocal opponent of
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Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case against Nuclearism
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Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor Executioners
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Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor Executioners
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Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation With the World
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Beginning in 1953, Lifton interviewed American servicemen who had been
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation
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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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His studies of the behavior of people who had committed
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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Sociological classifications of religious movements
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Explorations in Psychohistory: The Wellfleet Papers
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Explorations in Psychohistory: The Wellfleet Papers
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