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King of Children - The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak (Paperback): Betty Jean Lifton King of Children - The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak (Paperback)
Betty Jean Lifton; Introduction by Elie Wiesel, Curren Warf; Preface by Robert Jay Lifton
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R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Surviving Our Catastrophes - Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Robert Jay Lifton Surviving Our Catastrophes - Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Robert Jay Lifton
R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Beyond Invisible Walls - The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback):... Beyond Invisible Walls - The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
Jacob D. Lindy, Robert Jay Lifton
R1,593 Discovery Miles 15 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Beyond Invisible Walls - The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients (Hardcover):... Beyond Invisible Walls - The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients (Hardcover)
Jacob D. Lindy, Robert Jay Lifton
R3,702 Discovery Miles 37 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


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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Losing Reality - On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry (Hardcover): Robert Jay Lifton Losing Reality - On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry (Hardcover)
Robert Jay Lifton
R553 R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Save R97 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Cults in Our Midst - The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace (Paperback, Revised and Updated Edition): Margaret Thaler... Cults in Our Midst - The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace (Paperback, Revised and Updated Edition)
Margaret Thaler Singer; Foreword by Robert Jay Lifton
R660 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R148 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism - A Study of Brainwashing in China (Paperback): Robert Jay Lifton Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism - A Study of Brainwashing in China (Paperback)
Robert Jay Lifton
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism - A Study of Brainwashing in China (Hardcover): Robert Jay Lifton Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism - A Study of Brainwashing in China (Hardcover)
Robert Jay Lifton
R1,051 Discovery Miles 10 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Why Did They Kill? - Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (Paperback): Alexander Laban Hinton Why Did They Kill? - Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (Paperback)
Alexander Laban Hinton; Foreword by Robert Jay Lifton
R856 R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Save R105 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. "Why Did They Kill? "is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitantsOCoalmost a quarter of the population--who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies."

Witness to an Extreme Century (Paperback): Robert Jay Lifton Witness to an Extreme Century (Paperback)
Robert Jay Lifton
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R693 R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Crimes of War - Iraq (Paperback): Richard A. Falk, Irene L. Gendzier, Robert Jay Lifton Crimes of War - Iraq (Paperback)
Richard A. Falk, Irene L. Gendzier, Robert Jay Lifton
R675 R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Save R70 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Destroying the World to Save it - Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism (Paperback): Robert Jay... Destroying the World to Save it - Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism (Paperback)
Robert Jay Lifton
R706 R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Save R110 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Death in Life - Survivors of Hiroshima (Paperback, New edition): Robert Jay Lifton Death in Life - Survivors of Hiroshima (Paperback, New edition)
Robert Jay Lifton
R1,897 Discovery Miles 18 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Revolutionary Immortality - Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Paperback): Robert Jay Lifton Revolutionary Immortality - Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
Robert Jay Lifton
R482 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R57 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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"

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism - A Study of 'brainwashing' in China (Paperback, New edition): Robert... Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism - A Study of 'brainwashing' in China (Paperback, New edition)
Robert Jay Lifton
R1,622 Discovery Miles 16 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Protean Self - Human Resilience In An Age Of Fragmentation (Paperback, Reissue): Robert Jay Lifton The Protean Self - Human Resilience In An Age Of Fragmentation (Paperback, Reissue)
Robert Jay Lifton
R666 Discovery Miles 6 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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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