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From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely
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 "Lifton shows us why we
must confront reality in order to save democracy." —Peter
Balakian, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ozone Journal In
this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological
aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay
Lifton calls forth his life’s work to show us how to cope with
the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The result
is a thought-provoking examination of life in the face of COVID-19
from one of the most profound thinkers of our time. When the people
of Hiroshima experienced the unspeakable horror of the atomic
bombing, they responded by creating an activist “city of
peace.†Survivors of the Nazi death camps took the lead in
combating mass killing of any kind and converted their experience
into art and literature that demonstrated the resilience of the
human spirit. Drawing on the remarkably life-affirming responses of
survivors of such atrocities, Lifton, “one of the world’s
foremost thinkers on why we humans do such awful things to each
other†(Bill Moyers), shows readers how we can carry on and live
meaningful lives even in the face of the tragic and the absurd.
Surviving Our Catastrophes offers compelling examples of
“survivor power†and makes clear that we will not move forward
by denying the true extent of the pandemic’s destruction.
Instead, we must truly reckon with COVID-19’s effects on
ourselves and society—and find individual and collective forms of
renewal.
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. What we have witnessed,
however, is a slow and painful process of progression and
regression, of hope and disillusionment, of unexpected
psychological barriers: invisible walls that block the progress we
had hoped for. In Beyond Invisible Walls, East European therapists,
themselves, draw a compelling picture of the waves of trauma that
their people endured, the institutions of trauma that remained well
after Stalin's era, and their impact on survivors and their
families. They describe the psychological remnants of those years:
walls that confine people by unconsciously preserving old
adaptations to political terror, walls that divide one part of the
mind from another, and walls that rise between one generation and
the next. These therapists' stories allow us a striking glimpse
into how patients' trauma evokes the therapists' own wounds; how
both speaker and empathic listener find their way to a healing
process, how the two begin to dismantle these invisible walls.
Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award-winning psychiatrist,
historian, and public intellectual, proposes a radical idea: that
the psychological relationship between extremist political
movements and fanatical religious cults may be much closer than
anyone thought. Exploring the most extreme manifestations of human
zealotry, Lifton highlights an array of leaders - from Mao to
Hitler to the Japanese apocalyptic cult leader Shoko Asahara to
Donald Trump - who have sought the control of human minds and the
ownership of reality.
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. What we have witnessed, however, is a slow, painful process of progression and regression, of hope and disillusionment, of unexpected psychological barriers: invisible walls that block the progress we had hoped for. In Beyond Invisible Walls, East European therapists, themselves, draw a compelling picture of the waves of trauma that their people endured, the institutions of trauma that remained well after Stalin's era, and their impact on survivors and their families. They describe the psychological remnants of those years, walls that confine people by unconsciously preserving old adaptations to political terror; walls that divide one part of the mind from another, and walls that rise between one generation and the next. These therapists' stories allow us a striking glimpse into how patients' trauma evokes the therapists' own wounds; how both speaker and empathic listener find their way to a healing process, how the two began to dismantle these invisible walls. Editors Jacob D. Lindy and Robert J. Lifton have assembled compelling cases from Hungary, East Germany, Romania, Russia, Croatia, and Armenia and added their own commentary elucidating the interaction between multigenerational trauma, culture, and history. Historical sketches by eminent scholars provide further perspective on these times and events, In the detailed clinical discussions and poignant case studies, clinicians will find unique perspectives and understanding applicable to their work with anyone who has suffered under political repression. Rich with personal voices, Beyond Invisible Walls is a book into whose pages clinicians and lay readers alike will be drawn.
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Cults today are bigger than ever, with broad ramifications for national and international terrorism. In this newly revised edition of her definitive work on cults, Singer reveals what cults really are and how they work, focusing specifically on the coercive persuasion techniques of charismatic leaders seeking money and power. The book contains fascinating updates on Heaven's Gate, Falun Gong, Aum Shinrikyo, Hare Krishna, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and the connection between cults and terrorism in Al Queda and the PLO.
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Crimes of War - Iraq (Paperback)
Richard A. Falk, Irene L. Gendzier, Robert Jay Lifton
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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 about
Vietnam and the revelation of American war crimes. The editors
apply standards of international criminal law, as set forth at
Nuremberg after World War II, and by subsequent developments
regarding individual responsibility and accountability. These
principles have to do with the waging of aggressive war, attacks on
civilian centers of population, rights of resistance against an
illegal occupation, and the abuse of prisoners. Explorations of
psychology and human behavior include levels of motivation and
response in connection with torture at Abu Ghraib; the phenomenon
of the atrocity-producing situation in both Vietnam and Iraq (in
which counter-insurgency, military policies, and angry grief could
cause ordinary people to participate in atrocities); the behavior
of doctors and medics in colluding in torture at Abu Ghraib;
emerging testimony of American veterans of Iraq concerning the
confusions of the mission, and the widespread killing of civilians;
and accounts of broadening unease and psychological disturbance
among men and women engaged in combat.
National Book Award winner and renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay
Lifton reveals a world at risk from millennial cults intent on
ending it all.
Since the earliest moments of recorded history, prophets and gurus
have foretold the world's end, but only in the nuclear age has it
been possible for a megalomaniac guru with a world-ending vision to
bring his prophecy to pass. Now Robert Jay Lifton offers a vivid
and disturbing case in point in this chilling exploration of Aum
Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released sarin nerve gas in the
Tokyo subways.
With unprecedented access to former Aum members, Lifton has
produced a pathbreaking study of the inner life of a modern
millennial cult. He shows how Aum's guru Shoko Asahara (charismatic
spiritual leader, con man, madman) created a religion from a global
stew of New Age thinking, ancient rituals, and apocalyptic science
fiction, then recruited scientists as disciples and set them to
producing weapons of mass destruction. Taking stock as well of
Charles Manson, Heaven's Gate, and the Oklahoma City bombers,
Lifton confronts the frightening possibility of a twenty-first
century in which cults and terrorists may be able to bring about
their own holocausts.
Bold and compelling, Destroying the World to Save It charts the
emergence of a new global threat of urgent concern to us all.
In Japan, "hibakusha" means "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 Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological
effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as
providing a last chance to understand--and be motivated to
avoid--nuclear war. This compassionate treatment is a significant
contribution to the atomic age.
Robert Jay Lifton offers a new conceptual framework for our
understanding not only of Chinese convulsion, its causes, its
surprising potency and its consequences, but of evolution in
general and the strange urgency, which can become paramount, of
revolution never to proclaim itself successful, never to say its
job is done and its goals attained. . . . Dr. Lifton] has made a
signal contribution to the understanding of the relationship of
individual psychology to historical change, and especially of the
vicissitudes of human continuity . . . .Revolutionary Immortality
is, I would judge, an essential study of Communist China; more than
that, it is an original, intellectually exciting, gracefully
written and wholly accessible essay on an aspect of human
individual and mass psychology as it operates in contemporary
revolutionary circumstances around the world. Eliot Fremont-Smith,
New York Times"
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
Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese
government. Robert Lifton constructs these case histories through
personal interviews and outlines a thematic pattern of death and
rebirth, accompanied by feelings of guilt, that characterizes the
process of "thought reform." In a new preface, Lifton addresses the
implications of his model for the study of American religious
cults.
"Proteanism"--or the protean self--describes a psychological
phenomenon integral to our times. We live in a world marked by
breathtaking historical change and instantaneous global
communication. Our lives seem utterly unpredictable: there are few
absolutes. Rather than collapsing under these threats and pulls,
Robert Jay Lifton tells us, the self turns out to be remarkably
resilient. Like the Greek god Proteaus, who was able to change
shape in response to crisis, we create new psychological
combinations, immersing ourselves in fresh and surprising endeavors
over our lifetimes.
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