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 war
and political violence and for his theory of thought reform.
He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory.
Bibliography
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism:
A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, Norton (New York City), 1961.
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, Random House (New York City), 1968.
Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-Tung and
the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Random House, 1968.
Birds, Words, and Birds (cartoons), Random House, 1969.
History and Human Survival:
Essays on the Young and the Old, Survivors and the Dead, Peace and War,
and on Contemporary Psychohistory, Random House, 1970.
Boundaries, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Toronto), 1969,
published as Boundaries: Psychological Man in Revolution, Random House, 1970.
Home from the War:
Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor Executioners, Simon & Schuster (New York City), 1973.
(With Eric Olson) Living and Dying, Praeger, 1974.
The Life of the Self: Toward a New Psychology, Simon & Schuster, 1976.
Psychobirds, Countryman Press, 1978.
Six Lives/Six Deaths:
Portraits from Modern Japan
(originally published in Japanese as Nihonjin no shiseikan, 1977)
(With Shuichi Kato and Michael Reich),
Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1979.
The Broken Connection:
On Death and the Continuity of Life, Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Indefensible Weapons:
The Political and Psychological Case against Nuclearism, Basic Books (New York City), 1982.
(With Richard A. Falk)
The Nazi Doctors:
Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, Basic Books, 1986.
The Future of Immortality and Other Essays for a Nuclear Age, Basic Books, 1987.
The Genocidal Mentality:
Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat, Basic Books, 1990.
(With Eric Markusen)
The Protean Self:
Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation, Basic Books, 1993.
Hiroshima in America:
Fifty Years of Denial, Putnam's (New York City), 1995.
(With Greg Mitchell)
Destroying the World to Save It:
Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism, Owl Books, 2000.
Who Owns Death?
Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions, Morrow, 2000.
(With Greg Mitchell)
Superpower Syndrome:
America's Apocalyptic Confrontation With the World, Nation Books, 2003.
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