Witness to an extreme century
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Robert Jay Lifton
Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781416590767; 9781416590781; 9781416597186
Subjects: Modern Military history; Radicalism; Modern History; Social change; Nuclear warfare; Genocide; Historians; War and society; Psychiatrists; Political activists; Biography; History
Description: A personal account by the Harvard Medical School lecturer and political activist traces his explorations into the psychological sources and consequences of some of the past half-century's most disturbing events as experienced by its victims and perpetrators.
Table of contents: title: Section 1. Discovering the world; title: and its totalism; title: The decision; title: Method and research; title: Finding a mentor; title: Finding a voice; title: with help from friends; title: Further struggles with totalism; title: section 2. "Hiroshima had disappeared"; title: Getting to Hiroshima; title: The visceral immersion; title: Entrapment by the bomb; title: Dr. Hiroshima; title: section 3. Vietnam and the sixties; title: Responding to slaughter; title: Existential evil; title: "The sixties"; title: Home from the war; title: section 4. Nazi doctors; title: did it really happen?; title: Strong enough stomach?; title: Sitting down with Nazi doctors; title: Historical encounters; title: Annihilated by Europe; title: The infernal chorus; title: section 5. Next steps; title: Coming home; title: Full circle.