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22 quotes by Robert Jay Lifton

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It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had... →

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But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and... →

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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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The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a... →

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I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

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And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China... →

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As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about... →

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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 was quite clear they were talking about... →

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One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a... →

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When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties... →

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Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

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Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

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And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought... →

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