Authors >
Robert Jay Lifton

Robert Jay Lifton
Photograph © Richard Sandler

Robert Jay Lifton

X Are you a fan?

Find out about new releases by this author, recommendations, special offers, and more.

Related multimediaclose x

Video

1 to 1 of 1
  • 1635265513_1215415130001_210-full
    1. Witness to an Extreme Century
    03:38
    1054729000001
See more multimedia
Jul 14, 2011
Witness to an Extreme Century is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jun 14, 2011
Witness to an Extreme Century will be released on June 14, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Jun 14, 2011
Witness to an Extreme Century is now available in eBook
Jun 14, 2011
Witness to an Extreme Century will be released on June 14, 2011 in eBook
Jun 14, 2011

Authors on the Web

New York Times, February 18, 2013
...to make use of extended Nazi metaphors while saying nothing about Jews. The historian Stanley Elkins, the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton and the psychologist Stanley Milgram, she wrote, all used Nazi concentration camps, much as Friedan did, as a...
Middle East Forum, January 22, 2013
...Genocide (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2005), p. 265. [22] Roger W. Smith, Eric Markusen, and Robert Jay Lifton, "Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide," Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Spring 1995, pp. 9, 12. [23]...
Japan Focus, November 20, 2012
...in the Pacific War (New York; Pantheon, 1986). On the atomic attacks and psychological effects on survivors, see Robert Jay Lifton, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (New York: Vintage, 1967). 16 Marilyn B. Young, “Bombing Civilians: From the...
Japan Focus, November 19, 2012
...in the Pacific War (New York; Pantheon, 1986). On the atomic attacks and psychological effects on survivors, see Robert Jay Lifton, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (New York: Vintage, 1967). 16 Marilyn B. Young, “Bombing Civilians: From the...
The Nation, September 15, 2012
...of WikiLeaks, Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady, So Wrong for So Long, Why Obama Won and, with Robert Jay Lifton, Hiroshima in America. Contact: epic1934@aol.com...
Metaphilosophy, January 7, 2013
...are genocidal acts. The article suggests that one such instance is contained in a letter sent to Professor Robert Jay Lifton by Turkey's ambassador to the United States. The article is divided into three parts. In the first part, it delineates and...
Psychology Today, December 2, 2012
...health professional near you. Photo credit: Four Paws/Farmwatch The negative consequences of purposeful ignorance extend beyond its victims. Robert Jay Lifton wrote a treatise on the subject in his book, The Nazi Doctors. [7] Dissociation, cognitive...
Psychology Today, December 1, 2012
...health professional near you. Photo credit: Four Paws/Farmwatch The negative consequences of purposeful ignorance extend beyond its victims. Robert Jay Lifton wrote a treatise on the subject in his book, The Nazi Doctors. [7] Dissociation, cognitive...
Atlantic Monthly, November 27, 2012
...Happy Days to the proliferation of theme parks and historical preservation projects. In Home From the War psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton analyzed the new nostalgia as a part of psycho-historical restoration, which used technology to recover 'an imagined...
The Nation, November 26, 2012
...now, and how ignorant we are about our history. Greg Mitchell is the author of "" and, with Robert Jay Lifton, "Hiroshima in America." He is the former editor of Nuclear Times and Editor & Publisher and has written about th atomic bombing for dozens of...
New American, November 24, 2012
...to become a ‘cultivator of the genes,’ a ‘physician to the Volk [German people],’ and a ‘biological soldier,’” Robert Jay Lifton wrote in The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. Ramm … discussed the virtues of...
Japan Focus, November 20, 2012
...in the Pacific War (New York; Pantheon, 1986). On the atomic attacks and psychological effects on survivors, see Robert Jay Lifton, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (New York: Vintage, 1967). 16 Marilyn B. Young, “Bombing Civilians: From the...