"In sum, doubling is the psychological means by……" — Robert Jay Lifton
"In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved."
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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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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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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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