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      Surviving Our Catastrophes

      Robert Jay Lifton

      "A powerful rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of "survivor power" to understand the upheaval and death caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and collectively heal"--

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      Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution

      Robert Jay Lifton

      This new edition of Revolutionary Immortality coincides with two interesting rediscoveries in American intellectual life-that of China and that of death. The book happens to be about both.

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      The Broken Connection: On Death and the Continuity of Life

      Robert Jay Lifton

      One of America’s foremost thinkers and psychiatrists considers the inescapable connections between death and life and the life-enhancing richness that this awareness can bring.

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      The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope and Survival

      Robert Jay Lifton

      Lifton suggests … evidence of how we might call upon the human mind, ‘our greatest evolutionary asset,’ to translate a growing species of awareness into action to sustain our habitat…

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      Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima

      Robert Jay Lifton

      In Japan,
      hibakusha
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      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…

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      Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of ‘brainwashing’ in China

      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…

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      The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation

      Robert Jay Lifton

      In a world of historical change and instantaneous global communication, people face the unpredictable with few certainties to fall back on. Yet rather than collapsing under these threats and pulls…

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      Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China

      Robert Jay Lifton

      2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Lifton’s research for the book began in 1953 with a series of interviews…

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      Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry

      Robert Jay Lifton

      A definitive account from a leading expert on the nature of cults and those who are susceptible.

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      The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation

      Robert Jay Lifton

      Revising the psychology of the self, this text draws a line between multiplicity and fragmentation. The message is that it is better to be fluid, resilient and on the move…

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      Destroying the World to Save it: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism

      Robert Jay Lifton

      Looks at Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subways, and examines the mind of the man behind the religion. By the author of…

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      Witness to an Extreme Century

      Author Robert Jay Lifton

      A psycho-historian and political activist delves deeply into some of the darkest chapters of world history in the last half of the 20th century.

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      Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and their Patients

      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…

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      Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and their Patients

      Told from the points of view of therapists and psychiatrists within the former Soviet Bloc, this book examines the psychological hardships of living under a traumatizing regime. The clinicians share…

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      Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace

      Margaret Thaler Singer

      Cults are bigger than ever, with broad ramifications for national and international terrorism. This edition reveals what cults are and how they work, focusing on the coercive persuasion techniques of…

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      Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide

      Alexander Laban Hinton

      This is an ethnographic examination and an appraisal of the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot based on the author’s long fieldwork in the area.

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      Crimes of War

      Crimes of War–Iraq provides a comprehensive legal, historical, and psychological exploration of the war in Iraq from the same editorial team whose 1971 Crimes of War was a landmark book…

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      King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak

      Betty Jean Lifton

      The tragic story of Janusz Korczak, who chose to perish in Treblinka rather than abandon the Jewish orphans in his care. A pediatrician, educator and Polish Jew, he introduced progressive…

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      Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story

      Henry Morgenthau

      Originally published in 1918, this is the memoir of Henry Morgenthau, the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire who not only documented but also tried to stop the genocide of…

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      Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story

      Henry Morgenthau

      Originally published in 1918, this is the memoir of Henry Morgenthau, the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire who not only documented but also tried to stop the genocide of…

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      The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

      Bandy X Lee

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