Author, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism; Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima; The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Scientific career
Fields
psychiatry, psychohistory, mind control, thought reform
Institutions
Washington School of Psychiatry Harvard University John Jay College of Criminal Justice Yale University
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 wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory.
RobertJayLifton (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of...
stress disorder. The original concept of psychic numbing argued by RobertJayLifton was that it manifests itself collectively. This means that a society...
China is a non-fiction book by psychiatrist RobertJayLifton on the psychology of mind control. Lifton's research for the book began in 1953 with a series...
unit Lifton railway station Barbara Lifton (born 1950/51), politician David Lifton (born 1939), author Jimmy Lifton (born 1955), musician RobertJay Lifton...
was written by RobertJayLifton and published in 1986, analyzing the role of German doctors in carrying out a genocide. In the work Lifton details the medical...
health. He died on 5 May 1983, 11 years after he had been released. As RobertJayLifton has observed "...Schumann has great importance for us because of what...
Milieu control is a term popularized by psychiatrist RobertJayLifton to describe tactics that control environment and human communication through the...
He addressed issues related to this in a 1996 book co-written with RobertJayLifton, Hiroshima in America, and a later book, Atomic Cover-up. Greg Mitchell...
verbally present complex material in a clear manner. The American author RobertJayLifton notes that Mengele's published works were in keeping with the scientific...
start. It would be fought with particle beam weapons. According to RobertJayLifton, an American psychiatrist and author: [Asahara] described a final...
for reinforcing his emerging delusional beliefs", but psychiatrist RobertJayLifton speculates that Nettles' influence helped him avoid further psychological...
spent fifteen hours going over my SLA experiences with RobertJayLifton of Yale University. Lifton, author of several books on coercive persuasion and thought...
Machine, Chapter 14, Killing with Syringes: Phenol Injections. By Dr. RobertJayLifton "Killing through phenol injection". Auschwitz: Final Station Extermination...
cults by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich, Ph.D., with a foreword by RobertJayLifton. Singer writes: In this book I will use the term cult and cultic group...
eventually leading to the deaths of 70,000 adult Germans. Professor RobertJayLifton, author of The Nazi Doctors and a leading authority on the T4 program...
"The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide". RobertJayLifton. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018...
University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an admirer of the works of RobertJayLifton, Immanuel Wallerstein and Andre Gunder Frank, but as the party began...
author of Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide psychiatrist RobertJayLifton, the policy went through a number of iterations and modifications:...
and references there, http://www.holocaust-history.org/lifton/LiftonT271.shtml RobertJayLifton: Ärzte im Dritten Reich, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988,...
for having been used in this abominable way." Beginning in 1953, RobertJayLifton interviewed American servicemen who had been POWs during the Korean...
it was Brack, who "developed the organization." While historians RobertJayLifton and Henry Friedlander assert that the T4 programme provided the "medical...
Ellsberg worked in the Pentagon from August 1964 under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara as special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense for International...