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Robert Jay Lifton
Lifton in 2000
Born (1926-05-16) May 16, 1926 (age 98)
Brooklyn, New York, US
Alma materCornell University
New York Medical College
Known forAuthor, 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
Fieldspsychiatry, psychohistory, mind control, thought reform
InstitutionsWashington 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.

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start. It would be fought with particle beam weapons. According to Robert Jay Lifton, an American psychiatrist and author: [Asahara] described a final...

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for reinforcing his emerging delusional beliefs", but psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton speculates that Nettles' influence helped him avoid further psychological...

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spent fifteen hours going over my SLA experiences with Robert Jay Lifton of Yale University. Lifton, author of several books on coercive persuasion and thought...

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Machine, Chapter 14, Killing with Syringes: Phenol Injections. By Dr. Robert Jay Lifton "Killing through phenol injection". Auschwitz: Final Station Extermination...

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cults by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich, Ph.D., with a foreword by Robert Jay Lifton. Singer writes: In this book I will use the term cult and cultic group...

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eventually leading to the deaths of 70,000 adult Germans. Professor Robert Jay Lifton, author of The Nazi Doctors and a leading authority on the T4 program...

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255. Cambridge University Press (2005) Retrieved May 27, 2010 Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide...

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but the regime was conducting it in greater secrecy. According to Robert Jay Lifton, "[t]his powerful, populist sermon was immediately reproduced and...

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author of Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, the policy went through a number of iterations and modifications:...

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