Robert Jay Lifton's Profile
Brief about Robert Jay Lifton: By info that we know Robert Jay Lifton was born at 1926-05-16. And also Robert Jay Lifton is American Psychologist.
Some Robert Jay Lifton's quotes. Goto "Robert Jay Lifton's quotation" section for more.It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it.
Tags: Deep, Nobody, NuclearEvery adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
Tags: Sense, She, TimeI don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.
Tags: Feeling, Mind, YoungI learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
Tags: Against, Learned, WarI'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
Tags: Born, Childhood, YorkSometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
Tags: Might, Said, SometimesAgain, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.
Tags: Father, Mother, ParentsAnd I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.
Tags: Real, Study, ThoughtAnd I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.
Tags: Everyday, Life, ThoughtAs a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
Tags: Baseball, Hero, SportsBut I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.
Tags: Medical, School, WorkBut when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.
Tags: Death, Time, WorkI did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.
Tags: Military, Study, ThoughtI never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.
Tags: Healing, Idea, RatherI struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing.
Tags: Confused, Put, TogetherIt may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.
Tags: Life, May, WorkOne reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.
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