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Robert Jay Lifton M.D.

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Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., is an American psychiatrist and author whose subject has been the Holocaust, mass violence, and renewal in the 20th and 21st centuries. Lifton has written 24 books and edited eight others. His books include Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (winner of a National Book Award); The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize); Home from the War: Learning from Vietnam Veterans (nominated for a National Book Award); Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China; The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation; Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir; The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival; and, most recently, Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry.

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