Robert Jay Lifton

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Psychology

#167

World Rank

#265

Historical Rank

#114

USA Rank

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Biology

#1506

World Rank

#2515

Historical Rank

#730

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Robert Jay Lifton's Degrees

Bachelors English Literature Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Jay Lifton is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory.

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Published Papers

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (1986) (710)
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (1967) (462)
The broken connection : on death and the continuity of life (1979) (393)
The human meaning of total disaster. The Buffalo Creek experience. (1976) (238)
The protean self : human resilience in an age of fragmentation (1993) (236)
THOUGHT REFORM AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALISM (1962) (231)
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China (1962) (227)
The broken connection (1979) (142)
Destroying the world to save it : Aum Shinrikyō, apocalyptic violence, and the the new global terrorism (2000) (137)
Living and Dying (1974) (136)
Home From The War (1973) (132)
Doctors and torture. (2004) (131)
The sense of immortality: On death and the continuity of life (1973) (123)
Home from the war : Vietnam veterans : neither victims nor executioners (1975) (107)
Revolutionary immortality: Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese cultural revolution (1971) (102)
Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial (1995) (73)
Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism (1998) (71)
Destroying the World to Save It (2000) (70)
Beyond psychic numbing: a call to awareness. (1982) (65)
The Human Meaning of Total Disaster. (1976) (63)
Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide (1995) (62)
Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism@@@Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo (2001) (59)
The History of Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies@@@The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat (1991) (58)
Understanding the Traumatized Self (1988) (58)
Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions (2000) (55)
Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World (2003) (53)
Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial (1995) (52)
Autotransplantation for relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL): long-term follow-up and analysis of prognostic factors (1997) (52)
History and human survival (1970) (49)
Boundaries;: Psychological man in revolution (1970) (48)
The future of immortality and other essays for a nuclear age (1987) (46)
The woman in America (1965) (46)
Thought reform of western civilians in Chinese communist prisons. (1956) (44)
The protean self (1993) (41)
PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE ATOMIC BOMB IN HIROSHIMA: THE THEME OF DEATH (1963) (39)
The Life of the Self: Toward a New Psychology (1976) (39)
ON DEATH AND DEATH SYMBOLISM: THE HIROSHIMA DISASTER. (1964) (34)
From Hiroshima to the Nazi Doctors The Evolution of Psychoformative Approaches to Understanding Traumatic Stress Syndromes (1993) (32)
Beyond psychic numbing. A call to awareness (1984) (31)
Home by ship: reaction patterns of American prisoners of war repatriated from North Korea. (1954) (31)
Thought Reform of Chinese Intellectuals: A Psychiatric Evaluation (1956) (30)
The Genocidal Mentality (2016) (27)
Medicalized killing in Auschwitz. (1982) (25)
From Hiroshima to the Nazi Doctors (1993) (23)
Protean man. (1971) (21)
Aum Shinrikyo (2004) (20)
Crimes of war : a legal, political-documentary, and psychological inquiry into the responsibility of leaders, citizens, and soldiers for criminal acts in wars (1971) (19)
Advocacy and corruption in the healing professions. (1975) (18)
Americans as survivors. (2005) (18)
Crimes of war : Iraq (2006) (17)
On Death and the Continuity of Life: A Psychohistorical Perspective (1975) (17)
A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies (2003) (16)
Symbolic Immortality and Social Theory: The Relevance of an Underutilized Concept (2002) (16)
The Psychology of the Survivor and the Death Imprint (1982) (16)
The Spirit of Chinese Politics: A Psychocultural Study of the Authority Crisis in Political Development.@@@Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Cultural (1969) (15)
History and Human Survival: Essays on the Young and Old, Survivors and the Dead, Peace and War, and on Contemporary Psychohistory. (1970) (14)
Clinical use of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in neutropenia associated with malignancy. (1996) (13)
Six Lives, Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan (1980) (13)
The Postwar War (1975) (13)
Responses of Survivors to Man-made Catastrophes (1983) (12)
Beyond Nuclear Numbing (1982) (12)
Individual Patterns in Historical Change: Imagery of Japanese Youth (1964) (11)
Explorations in Psychohistory: The Wellfleet Papers (1975) (11)
Nuclear energy and the wisdom of the body (1976) (9)
Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir (2011) (9)
From analysis to formation: towards a shift in psychological paradigm. (1976) (8)
SOCIAL FACTORS AND DISORDERS OF COMMUNICATION. INDIVIDUAL PATTERNS IN HISTORICAL CHANGE: IMAGERY OF JAPANESE YOUTH. (1964) (8)
Chinese Communist "Thought Reform": Confession and Re-Education of Western Civilians. (1957) (7)
Beyond invisible walls: The psychological legacy of Soviet trauma. (2013) (6)
Illusions of the Second Nuclear Age (2001) (6)
Psychotherapy with combat fliers. (1953) (6)
On the consciousness of holocaust. (1980) (5)
The End of Hope: A Social-Clinical Theory of Suicide. (1965) (5)
Malignant Normality (2017) (4)
“In the Lord’s Hands” America’s Apocalyptic Mindset (2003) (4)
German doctors and the final solution. (1986) (4)
Post-totalitarian deconversion trauma (2013) (3)
Response to Statements in the Book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President": (501652018-001) (2017) (3)
Reason, Rearmament, and Peace: Japan's Struggles with a Universal Dilemma (1962) (3)
Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case against Nuclearism@@@Against the State of Nuclear Terror (1985) (3)
Owning reality: Reflections on Cultism and Zealotry (2020) (3)
The doctors of Auschwitz: the biomedical vision. (1983) (2)
Thought Reform of the Chinese Intellectuals.@@@Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. (1961) (2)
On Becoming Witnessing Professionals (2020) (2)
Why Did They Kill (2004) (2)
America in Vietnam—The circle of deception (1968) (2)
On Religious Fanaticism A Look at Transpersonal Identity Disorder by (2004) (2)
Three Paths to Enlightenment about Aum Shinrikyō (2001) (2)
On Phychology and History: Further Comment (1965) (2)
The psychology of violence. (1996) (2)
Hiroshima and ourselves. (1985) (2)
America and the Asian revolutions (1971) (1)
The Social Psychology of Civil Defense@@@Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case against Nuclearism (1984) (1)
The Apocalyptic Face-Off: The Culture of Death after 9/11 (2018) (1)
Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo: medical professionalism, dual loyalty and human rights (2005) (1)
The prevention of nuclear war (1980) (1)
A Nuclear Age Ethos (1985) (1)
Reflections on aum shinrikyo (1998) (1)
The dimensions of contemporary war and violence: How to reclaim humanity from a continuing revolution in the technology of killing (2013) (1)
“Death imprints”; on youth in vietnam (1974) (1)
Witnessing survival (1978) (1)
Evil, the Self, and Survival (2019) (1)
Toward a nuclear-age ethos (1985) (1)
ISLAM, HEALTHCARE ETHICS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS (2018) (1)
Killing in the name of healing. (1987) (1)
Feedbackfrom our readers (1968) (1)
Cultist Subversion of Scientists and Physicians (2000) (0)
Vietnam: Betrayal and self-betrayal (1969) (0)
Understanding Trauma: Foreword by Robert Jay Lifton (2007) (0)
IMAGES OF NUCLEAR WAR AND HUMAN DESTRUCTION: PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES (1987) (0)
A Brief Conversation with Robert Jay Lifton (2022) (0)
Feedback from our readers (1971) (0)
In a Dark Time (1984) (0)
Hiroshima Bombing, Stress Effects of (2007) (0)
Death in Life : Survivors of Hiroshima Category : Ethnopsychology (0)
Prisoners of Liberation (1958) (0)
Foreword. Fukushima’s Special Message (2021) (0)
4.3. Evil, the Self, and Survival (2020) (0)
Discussion of Martin S. Bergmann’s Paper (2018) (0)
A-Bomb Man (1991) (0)
Feedback from our readers (1968) (0)
Book reviews (2005) (0)
Japanese Youth: The Search for the New and the Pure (2016) (0)
"America: possibilities for transformation" (1973) (0)
Feedback from our readers (1970) (0)
Two Spiritual Innovators (2016) (0)
Interview: Art and The Imagery of Extinction (2018) (0)
Drawing on the contributions of a number of philosophers (2006) (0)
Formulation: Self and World (1991) (0)
Trans-action Books.@@@Cuban Communism.@@@Campus Power Struggle.@@@The Changing South.@@@Where Medicine Fails.@@@The Sexual Scene.@@@Black Experience: Soul.@@@Black Experience: The Transformation of Activism.@@@Law and Order: Modern Criminals.@@@Law and Order: The Scales of Justice. (1971) (0)
HAWTHORNE ' S ' THE BIRTHMARK ' ' : SCIENCE AND ROMANCE AS BELIEF (2009) (0)
Letter from Japan. (1954) (0)
Creative Response: 1) “A-Bomb Literature” (1991) (0)
Mao Tse-Tung & the ‘death of the revolution’ (1968) (0)
“A-Bomb Disease” (1991) (0)
Introduction: Research and Researcher (1991) (0)
New Theories in Psychoanalysis (1981) (0)
The Atomic Bomb Experience (1991) (0)
Atomic Bomb Leaders (1991) (0)
Creative Response: 2) Artistic Dilemmas (1991) (0)
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.@@@Daedalus.@@@The Puritan Ethic and Woman Suffrage.@@@Divorce in the Progressive Era.@@@The New People: Desexualization in American Life. (1969) (0)
Vol21#3_Beyond Nuclear Numbing: A Call to Teach and Learn (1982) (0)
Whose Psychohistory? (2017) (0)
Panel IIA - "The Psychological Relationship Between Language and Violence" (1988) (0)
Residual Struggles: Trust, Peace, And Mastery (1991) (0)
On Death and the Continuity of Life: A Psychohistorical Perspective 1 (2019) (0)
Youth : change and challenge (1964) (0)

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Robert Jay Lifton is most known for their academic work in the field of psychology. They are also known for their academic work in the fields of and biology.

Robert Jay Lifton has made the following academic contributions:

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

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