Robert jay liftons eight criteria for identifying authoritarian cults by brad sargent may 2012 the following material appeared in a threepart miniseries within a larger series on thought control, toxic churches, and lessons from the hunger games trilogy. Lifton wrote best evidence, which received a lot of flack within the jfk assassination research community for some time, but as doug horne has proven in his book, inside the arrb, much of what lifton wrote about in best evidence in 1981 was right on the money. A study of the events surrounding the hiroshima bombing focuses on its affects in america, considering the coverup efforts by the government and linking the bombing to current insensitivities toward violence. Essays discuss the psychological aspects of hiroshima, vietnam.
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Robert jay liftons most popular book is the nazi doctors. 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. Lifton presented at a combined meeting of the section on neurology and psychiatry with the new york neurological society at the new york academy of medicine, november, 1956, as part of a panel discussion on communist methods of interrogation and indoctrination. Liftons 8 criteria for thought reform rosanne henry. Georg renno, lonauers successor as director, to 400,000 by franz ziereis, the former commandant of mauthausen, on his deathbed. Download medici nazisti robert j lifton ebook pdf droppdf. The dangerous case of donald trump psychology today. Lifton makes important contributions with his five modes of symbolic immortality and with his investigation of the psychological themes in survivors.
Dec 18, 2001 professor robert jay lifton specializes in the study of extremist religions and cults. When we inquire into the sources of this momentum, we come upon a complex set of psychological themes, which may be grouped under. This material consists of draft writings, research material, correspondence, client files, interview notes and transcripts, etc. The same is true concerning the total number of people murdered at specific killing centers. Books by robert jay lifton author of the nazi doctors. In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. Ideological totalism thought reform has a psychological momentum of its own, a selfperpetuating energy not always bound by the interests of the programs directors. Psychic numbing is a tendency for individuals or societies to withdraw attention from past experiences that were traumatic, or from future threats that are perceived to have massive consequences but low probability.
Nevertheless, through his study of this murderous sect, the eminent psy. Robert jay lifton quotes author of the nazi doctors. Lessons from the hunger games 5a dystopian dynamics, totalitarian tactics, and. This involves the control of information and communication both within the environment and, ultimately, within the individual, resulting in a significant degree of isolation from society at large. Essays from now or never new york, harper perennial, 1996, 232. Lifton, thought reform and the psycholo,y of totalism, p. Medical killing and the psychology of genocide robert j. Lifton, doctors and torture, new england journal of medicine, vol. Robert jay lifton is a psychiatrist and the author of death in life. He taught nuclear technologies and security, a course that examines the impact of nuclear technologies on national and global security. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. The primary source for many of the ideas of this essay is robert j. Robert jay lifton on the apocalyptic twins of nuclear and climate threats. He called the method used thought reform, and offered the following eight methods that are used to change peoples minds.
More recently it has been revealed that two psychologists were architects of the cias torture program. Lifton s 8 criteria for thought reform the manipulation of others the leader who becomes the center of the mystical manipulation or the person in whose name it is done can be sometimes more real than an abstract god and. He has previously taught at yale and harvard medical schools. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. This process involved the social integration of german doctors into the nazi regiment by controlling the doctrine of medical training, as well as. Robert jay lifton is a lecturer in psychiatry at columbia university and distinguished professor emeritus of psychiatry and psychology at the city university of new york. Mar 18, 2017 in this video, spike robinson delivers an exceptional presentation about robert jay lifton s eight criteria of thought reform. He is the author of other widely acclaimed works, death in life 1968, home from the war 1973, the life of the self 1976, the broken connection 1979, and with richard falk, indefensible weapons 1982, all published by basic books. Psychic numbing can be a response to threats as diverse as financial and economic collapse, the risk of nuclear weapon detonations, pandemics, and global warming. David lifton was on night fright with brent holland recently to talk about his new book, final charade. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the bound volume. Lifton s contemporaries, including anne parsons, talcott parsons. Nov 21, 2018 philip shenon, author of a cruel and shocking act. Lifton, lucian pye, richard solomons and others should be borne in mind in considering the origins of maos thinking.
Lifton, in his thought reform and the psychology of totalism, a study of brainwashing in china, such as a propensity to distort language and to limit probative thinking. Robert jay lifton suggested that the reports of us physicians involvement in torture in iraq, afghanistan and guanta. Survivors of hiroshima, and a memoir, witness to an extreme century. Lifton explains how during the 1960s he found his study of thought reform in communist china could be extended to. In this timely book, robert jay lifton and greg mitchell investigate the mindsets of individuals involved in the death penalty including prison wardens, prosecutors, jurors, religious figures, governors, judges, and relatives of murder victims and offer a textured look at. The bulk of the papers of betty jean lifton document her early career as a childrens writer and her second career as a writer, researcher, and counselor on the subject of adoption, as well the research and writing of her book king of children. Robert jay lifton fellows john jay college of criminal justice. Robert jay lifton has 45 books on goodreads with 24229 ratings.
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Oct, 2017 psychiatrist robert jay lifton on duty to warn. Lifton s 8 criteria for thought reform every issue in ones life can be reduced to a single set of principles that have an inner coherence to the point that one can claim the experience of truth and feel it the pattern of doctrine over person occurs when there is a conflict between what one feels oneself experiencing and what the doctrine or ideology says one should. Robert jay lifton begins his work in the psychosocial framework that he takes over from erik erikson. Article information, pdf download for robert jay lifton. This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in cultic studies journal, 1991, volume 8, number 1, pages 16. Hel talk with us about john walker, the american captured in afghanistan fighting for the taliban. Nov 06, 2015 in april 2014, daniel pick interviewed robert jay lifton for a wideranging discussion about his life and research. To say that if asahara and aum shinrikyo didnt exist robert j. Each of us willynilly creates an inner image of what took place there and what that signifies. Lifton, pelican, revolutionary immortality news the harvard crimson 1969, english, book edition. Lifton would have had to invent them would probably be terribly unfair. Lifton coined the term psychic numbing to refer to a general category of diminished capacity or inclination to feel. Lifton many people are not happy about this war writing in the london guardian on march 12, wellknown author and psychologist robert 1. Robert jay lifton was one of the early psychologists to study brainwashing and mind control.
A window on a century with profound changes in mankinds ability and tendency to inflict destruction and horror on his fellow man. Stoicism and the holocaust from the march 28, 1968 issue to the editors. Since that diagnosis was created, research on the complex effects of trauma on the brain, mind, and body has increased due to better recognition of the disorder and more veterans. Certainly, it was larger than any bomb ever dropped but qualitatively no different. The sectarian spirit in the catholic church cult formation robert j.
Cults represent one aspect of a worldwide epidemic of ideological totalism, or fundamentalism. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Medical killing and the psychology of genocide, basic books, inc. Communism, perfection, confession, guilt, robert jay lifton, shaming, psychological warfare, sykewar, totalitarian, mind control collection opensource language english. Pdf on jun 1, 1991, brian dagostino and others published the genocidal mentality. Now, after twentyeight years, my own sense of this book has changed. Lifton is distinguished professor of psychiatry at john jay college and the graduate center of the city university of new york. The harvard mental health letter volume 7, number 8 february 1981, reprinted in aff news vol. Authors in the dangerous case of donald trump elaborate on the. Mao tsetung and the chinese cultural revolution robert jay lifton. Lifton, a psychiatrist from yale, and his extremely intelligent book, the broken connection. Lifton asserted that many americans have grave misgivings about the bush adminis trations conduct of the gulf war, and forecast a national reassessment of the entire affair. Lifton, at whose residence the party was held, is a psychiatrist with offices in new york city.
For me, the word predatory says a lot about destructive cults. Psychiatric medicine and the atomic age volume 62 issue 1 ran zwigenberg. At first many people perceived the explosion of the atomic bomb over hiroshima as just another explosion. National book awardwinning author and psychiatrist, robert jay lifton, argues that people have become numb to the reality of climate change. Robert jay lifton the nazi doctors auschwitz concentration. In combination, they create an atmosphere which may lifton8criteria. Medical killing and the psychology of genocide basic books, 1986, 442. The following two clips provide the final portions of that extended conversation. That could happen because torture had been approved from above, and in that way became part of an american version of malignant normality.
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