Robert Jay Lifton

Robert Jay Lifton (May 16, 1926 – September 4, 2025) was an American psychiatrist and author. He was known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence. He was a known supporter of the techniques of psychohistory. His written works were Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism and The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide.

Lifton died in Truro, Massachusetts on September 4, 2025, at the age of 99.

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Other websites

 Evil, the Self, and Survival : interview by Harry Kreisler, 1999
 : Lifton discusses "atrocity-producing situations" in the case of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, 2004
 . Robert Jay Lifton on superpower syndrome, TomDispatch, 2006.
 The End of Life: Exploring Death in America "Doctors and Death" Transcript, All Things Considered, Jan. 4
 Hiroshima and the World: The Wisdom of Survivors  article in the Chugoku Shimbun.

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