Description: Product Description : Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir On a fateful day in the spring of 1954 Robert Jay Lifton a young American psychiatrist just discharged from service in the Korean War decided to stay in Hong Kong rather than return homechanging his life plans entirelyso that he could continue work that had enthralled him interviewing people subjected to Chinese thought reform He had plunged into uncharted territory in probing the far reaches of the human psyche as he would repeatedly in the years ahead and his Hong Kong research provided the first understanding of the insidious process that came to be known as brainwashingFrom that day in Hong Kong forward Lifton has probed into some of the darkest episodes of human history bearing his unique form of psychological witness to the sources and consequences of collective violence and trauma as well as to our astonishing capacity for resilienceIn this longawaited memoir Lifton charts the adventurous and constantly surprising course of his fascinating life journey a journey that took him from what a friend of his called a Jewish Huck Finn childhood in Brooklyn to friendships with many of the most influential intellectuals writers and artists of our timefrom Erik Erikson David Riesman and Margaret Mead to Howard Zinn and Kurt Vonnegut Stanley Kunitz Kenzaburo Oe and Norman MailerIn his remarkable study of Hiroshima survivors he explored the human consequences of nuclear weapons and then went on to uncover dangerous forms of attraction to their power in the spiritual disease he calls nuclearism During riveting facetoface interviews with Nazi doctors he illuminated the reversal of healing and killing in ordinary physicians who had been socialized to Nazi evil With Vietnam veterans he helped create unprecedented rap groups in which much was revealed about what we now call posttraumatic stress disorder helping veterans draw upon their experience for valuable even prophetic insights about atrocity and war As a pioneer in psychohistory Liftons encounters with the consequences of cruelty and destructiveness led him to become a passionate social activist lending a powerful voice of conscience to the suppressed truths of the Vietnam War and the dangers of nuclear weaponsWritten with the warmth of spiritalong with the humor and sense of absurditythat have made Lifton a beloved friend and teacher to so many Witness to an Extreme Century is a moving and deeply thoughtprovoking story of one mans extraordinary commitment to looking into the abyss of evil in order to help us move beyond it( it is an used product )
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Country of Origin: USA United States
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Dimensions LxWxH - Cms: 6.75X1.25X9.5
ISBN-10: 1416590765
ISBN-13: 9781416590767
SKU: SONG1416590765
Edition: 1
No. of Pages: 448
Type: Books
Book Title: Witness to an Extreme Century : a Memoir
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Free Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2011
Topic: Military / Nuclear Warfare, Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Sociology / General, Genocide & War Crimes, Personal Memoirs, Military / General, Modern / 20th Century, Political Process / Political Advocacy, Medical, Psychiatry / General, Historical
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Medical, History
Item Weight: 23.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
