"And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose……" — Robert Jay Lifton
"And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts."
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Robert Jay Lifton
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27 Quotes by Robert Jay Lifton
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I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of…
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Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional…
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But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it…
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In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is…
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And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and…
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Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into…
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I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
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David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling…
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Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these…
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One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the…
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As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I…
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The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence…
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