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Robert Jay Lifton
 
Date of birth: 16 May 1926
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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" Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. "

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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, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing. "

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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 about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life. "

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" And so I had an early but somewhat vague interest in both medicine and in what was to become, in my mind and in my work, psychiatry. "

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" And the Holocaust was there, it wasn't talked about a lot in my family as it was happening. Maybe we didn't want to know it was happening. Later on, soon after the war, I remember seeing pictures that were shocking, and doubly so that people were murdered this way because they were Jewish, as I was. "

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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 Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called. "

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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 did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school. "

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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 death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death. "

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" Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created. "

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" I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military. "

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" I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind. "

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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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" I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on. "

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" I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing. "

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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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