Robert Jay Lifton, Author Basic Books $15 (276p) ISBN 978-0-465-06421-2
In this ambitious, original work, the author of The Nazi Doctors looks at human flexibility in the face of the an age of great change. (Jan.)
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Robert Jay Lifton, Author Metropolitan Books $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5290-9
Lifton's book about Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult is less an exploration of terrorism than a look at the psychological traits of the mostly educated followers of Aum's guru, Asahara. As a psychiatrist, Lifton (Death in Life; The Nazi Doctors; etc.) is...
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Robert Jay Lifton, Author Basic Books $21.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-465-02597-8
One American GI who said he ""felt good'' immediately after killing Vietnamese civilians serves to illustrate the capacity in each of us for psychic numbing. An acquired callousness to evil and sufferingwhether the result of war, the Holocaust or...
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Robert Jay Lifton, Author Basic Books $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-465-06420-5
The ``protean self,'' as psychiatrist Lifton defines it, feeds on bits and pieces of experience in our fragmented, deracinated society and continuously reinvents itself. In an ambitious, highly stimulating, original synthesis, the prolific author of
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Robert Jay Lifton, Author, Eric Markusen, With Basic Books $22.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-465-02662-3
Does the nuclear arms race, with its ``grotesque . . . mass planning for genocide,'' resemble the Nazis' slaughter of Jews? The authors draw provocative, if partial, parallels. Just as Germany's top doctors became ``biological managers,''...
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Robert Jay Lifton, Author, R. Lifton, Author, Greg Mitchell, With Putnam Adult $27.5 (425p) ISBN 978-0-399-14072-3
President Truman was ambivalent about the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet, according to this unsettling study, Truman, influenced by army general Leslie Groves and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, went into denial and...
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Robert Jay Lifton, Author, Greg Mitchell, Author, Greg Mitchell, Joint Author William Morrow & Company $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-380-97498-6
In their preface, the authors write that they want to ""understand the reasons for America's unyielding support for executions."" But don't be fooled: this is a subtle, provocative argument against the death penalty. Lifton and Mitchell, longtime...
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Robert Jay Lifton. The New Press, $23.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-62097-499-5
In this slim but not especially accessible book, psychiatrist Lifton (The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide) collects excerpts from previous work, interwoven with new commentary and material, to draw parallels between cult
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