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	NOW: Printable Transcript - Bill Moyers interviews Robert Jay Lifton \| PBS
		ROBERT JAY LIFTON: Well, I think the practical alternative to what we've been doing in relation to terrorism is to act in concert with other countries, with other groups.
		ROBERT JAY LIFTON: They can convince themselves through their radical ideology or theology that their killing Americans is an act of extreme virtue.
		ROBERT JAY LIFTON: I don't think the Islamist terrorists are in control of our gross national psychology, but they're involved in it more than perhaps they should be.
	www.pbs.org /now/printable/transcript_lifton_print.html (2401 words)

	Robert Lifton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is a prominent (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A physician who specializes in psychiatry) psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of (The waging of armed conflict against an enemy) war and political violence.
		Lifton was born in (additional info and facts about Brooklyn, New York) Brooklyn, New York, the son of Harold A. (a businessman) and Ciel (Roth) Lifton.
		In each case Lifton believed that the psychic fragmentation experienced by his subjects was an extreme form of pathologies that arise in peacetime life due to the pressures and fears of modern society.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_lifton.htm (1187 words)

	Robert Lifton
		Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is a prominent American psychiatrist and author.
		He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Harold A. (a businessman) and Ciel (Roth) Lifton.
		Using the techniques of psychohistory, in a manner similar to Erik Erikson, Lifton has written several books throughout his career in which he studies how human beings react to extreme situations, and how they come to terms with mortality.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_lifton.html (568 words)

	Robert Jay Lifton
		Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. '48, often observes that when his phone starts ringing off the hook, you know the world is in trouble.
		Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. '48, a visiting professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital, and an expert on the subject of terrorism, has appeared on many television and radio shows since 9/11.
		Lifton, who has spent not quite half a century pondering subjects like genocide, terrorism and nuclear extinction, believes he is not a gloomy man. ''One's life work can be devoted to dreadful events without becoming deeply pessimistic," he said.
	www.nymc.edu /pubs/Chironian/Summer2002/Lifton.htm (781 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Dr. Robert Jay Lifton: American Psychological Association Should “Prohibit Any Involvement” of ...
		ROBERT JAY LIFTON: Some of the military studies again, coming from within the military, say that there's a kind of hesitation to seek psychological help because it's considered in some way tainted, or a sign of weakness, and it could adversely affect your military career.
		ROBERT JAY LIFTON: When you talk about atrocity-producing situations, it's always the foot soldiers who get prosecuted and who are blamed, but the ultimate responsibility has to do with those environments and those who create those environments.
		ROBERT JAY LIFTON: Well that’s been one of the outrages, the narrow definition of torture by the administration, and it's been put forward by its legal team so that torture becomes described as only something that causes organ injury.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=06/06/12/1320246&mode=thread&tid=25 (3842 words)

	CESNUR - Killing Fields: Lifton, Brainwashing, and Aum Shinri-kyo. A Review of Robert Jay Lifton’s ...
		The name of Robert Jay Lifton, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the City University of New York, is so frequently associated with brainwashing controversies and cult wars, particularly in Europe, that many tend to overlook what makes his voice interesting and unique.
		While the distinction between a "religion" and a "cult" (in general) remains elusive (and Lifton confines it to a footnote), the distinction between what Lifton calls "world-destroying cults" and everything else in the religious scenario is crucial for both theoretical and practical purposes.
		Lifton is a psychiatrist, and we should perhaps not ask from his book more than it can conceivably deliver in terms of history, theology and sociology of an obscure (if notorious) Japanese group.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/aum.htm (1607 words)

	Race Matters - Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lifton is at his best in explaining the mixed-up feeling of Asahara's disciples, the confusion that led them to obey the guru or rationalize what he did.
		Lifton, who has written extensively both on Japan and on terrorism and genocide, interviewed former members of the cult, and his profile of Aum's leader, the charismatic con man Shoko Asahara, is extremely detailed and rather creepy.
		Lifton is evocative and erudite as usual, yet the limits of his psychohistorical'' method remain.
	www.racematters.org /worldtosaveitaumshinrikyo.htm (928 words)

	Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation With The World
		Robert Jay Lifton, distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as well as a visiting psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School.
		ROBERT JAY LIFTON: Superpower syndrome really means an American sense of entitlement to rule the world because it's the strongest power in the world.
		ROBERT JAY LIFTON: I think this is the most dangerous situation we faced in whatever history I have lived through, over, what, more than a half century.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article5531.htm (2296 words)

	Psychology Today: Prophet of survival - Robert Jay Lifton and his work on psychohistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Nazi doctors, Lifton argues, experienced "doubling," in which part of the self behaves as a whole, creating "a functional second self radically at odds morally with the prior self." Doctors who had sincerely vowed to uphold the Hippocratic oath were also capable of commiting unspeakable atrocities to those same bodies they were sworn to heal.
		Lifton traces the historical development of the "final solution" in medical terms, showing how the participation of doctors escalated and how they salvaged their professional dignity by maintaining professional control of the proceedings.
		Lifton argues that nuclearism is leading American teachers and "ostensible intellectuals" to renounce their critical function.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1175/is_n6_v22/ai_6703155/pg_2 (1391 words)

	Numbing, a Modern Temptation; Lifton, Robert N.
		Possibly the world's foremost expert on numbing is Dr. Robert J. Lifton, the psychiatrist who first studied the psychological effects of the atom bomb on the Japanese people.
		Lifton has also studied the effects of the Vietnam War on our veterans, and most recently did a study of the medical profession which functioned in Germany during the Holocaust.
		Lifton goes on to explain how numbing is a natural process whereby one is able to exclude/block out those things which are harmful and troubling...and that is necessary for a person to survive or cope.
	www.stauros.org /notebooks/v01n3a01.html (2029 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. Bill Moyers Interviews Robert Jay Lifton. 10.18.02 \| PBS
		Lifton outlines the eight psychological themes that distinguishes a cult from a mere political, religious, or social grouping.
		Evil, the Self, and Survival: A Conversation with Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. In this "Conversation with History" from the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, Robert J. Lifton explains his intellectual journey from his childhood home of Brooklyn to his groundbreaking studies in the scientific field of psychohistory.
		Within his rebuttal, Lifton provides insight into many of his central concepts of this book, including "the communal reinforcement of guilt," and "psychic numbing." Paul Goodman responds at the end of the article.
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript_lifton.html (2711 words)

	Is there a cure for 'superpower syndrome'?
		The administration's reaction to the terrorists' challenge is the crux of what Dr. Lifton calls "superpower syndrome," a psychological treadmill spurned on by vulnerability and perpetuated through violence that has left the United States destabilized and terrorism poorly countered.
		In the 1990s, Dr. Lifton became increasingly concerned about the danger of religious zealots and cults such as Japan's Aum Shinrikyo, the group that released sarin gas into the Tokyo subways in 1995, killing 11 commuters and injuring hundreds of others.
		To be clinical, Dr. Lifton traces superpower syndrome to America's abrupt and public injury on Sept. 11, 2001, a devastating attack on the sense of power and potency that is essential to its conception of itself.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article5752.htm (1393 words)

	Milieu Control
		Diane stresses the importance of the milieu control factor as defined by Robert J. Lifton and shows how it doesn't apply to Scientologists who are otherwise free to mix up with society at large.
		Lifton maintains quite clearly in his book that milieu control is necessary before any thought reform tactics have a chance of success.
		>Lifton himself wrote an essay of his 8 criteria as applied more specifically to cults in his essay in "The Future of Immoraltality" which was reprinted in its entirety at the back of Steve Hassan's book Combatting Cult Mind Control.
	bernie.cncfamily.com /sc/mc3_milieu.htm (577 words)

	TFF Associates
		Robert Jay Lifton is also a cartoonist by avocation, having published two books of humorous bird cartoons.
		Robert Jay Lifton taught for many years at the John Jay College of the CUNY.
		Robert Jay Lifton became a TFF Associate in 1992.
	www.transnational.org /SAJT/tff/people/rj_lifton.html (388 words)

	Nation Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In Superpower Syndrome, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton describes two competing visions--Islamist and American--each aimed at massive destruction in the name of global purification and renewal.
		Bush's war on terror can be seen as apocalyptic, Lifton says, because of its call for an amorphous battle unlimited in time or space and encompassing the absolute eradication of evil.
		The U.S. response to Nazi violence was similarly apocalyptic, in Lifton's analysis, a battle 'for global salvation through the flames of destruction,' such as the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima.
	www.nationbooks.org /book.mhtml?t=lifton (400 words)

	Robert Jay Lifton Biography (1926– ) Online Encyclopedia Article About Robert Jay Lifton Biography (1926– )
		Robert Jay Lifton Biography (1926–) Online Encyclopedia Article About Robert Jay Lifton Biography (1926–)
		He taught at Yale (1961) and was director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College (New York City) (1985).
		His main interest throughout his career was to understand and write about how disturbing historical events and processes affect the individual.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/005/Robert-Jay-Lifton.html (210 words)

	Scholar studies why we hate
		Lifton's Nov. 2 visit is underwritten by contributions raised from Armenian-Americans locally and throughout the U.S. The fund-raising effort was organized by Lucille Gochigian Sarkissan, of Guilderland, a Sage graduate.
		Lifton said the killings at Columbine High School and other schoolyard violence across the U.S. should be a warning to parents and teachers.
		Lifton said he finds relief from the unremitting brutality that is central to his scholarship by walking the beach near his Wellfleet home, which he vacated last week for his permanent base in New York City.
	www.rickross.com /reference/hate_groups/hategroups246.htm (931 words)

	http://www.AGPF.de/Lifton.htm
		Lifton ist Professor der Psychologie und der Psychiatrie.
		Liftons Buch von 1963 liefert bis heute für viele ehemaligen Anhänger von Sekten eine Erklärung dafür, was mit ihnen geschehen ist.
		Deshalb setzt sich Lifton auch dafür ein, dass das vorhandene Waffenarsenal reduziert und der Zugang dazu erschwert wird.
	www.agpf.de /Lifton.htm (1415 words)

	Walter A. Davis: Robert Jay Lifton, or Nostalgia
		Indeed, accordingly to Lifton "there is evidence that by the time of birth the quest is well under way." Biological essentialism thus grounds a psychological paradigm that enables Lifton to view the horrors of history through the lens provided by a transcendent humanistic vision.
		That problematic reveals Lifton's protean self as a last desperate effort to recycle under the guise of flexibility, pluralistic openness, and ambiguity tolerance a litany of liberal, humanistic commonplaces that were exposed in their hollowness and their irrelevancy by 9-11.
		That suppression, on which the ego psychology developed by Lifton's mentor Erikson and others depends, is of a piece with the inability to understand death from within as a force at the center of the conflicts that define the psyche.
	www.counterpunch.org /davis01032004.html (3078 words)

	Amazon.com: Destroying the World to Save It : Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lifton's book about Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult is less an exploration of terrorism than a look at the psychological traits of the mostly educated followers of Aum's guru, Asahara.
		As a psychiatrist, Lifton (Death in Life; The Nazi Doctors; etc.) is well equipped to explain the siren call of apocalyptic gurus and the psychology of disaffected groups seeking to cleanse and reinvent the world.
		Lifton describes the "psychohistorical" past of Japan (the move from feudalism to modernism, the emperor system, Hiroshima) to show why 23,000 religious groups in Japan have a total membership of 200 million JapaneseAeven though the population of Japan is only 130 million.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805065113?v=glance (1574 words)

	City Pages - Robert Jay Lifton: <I>Destroying the World to Save It</I>
		But Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award-winning author of Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima and a practicing psychiatrist, argues that the event is far more than a curious aberration that can be forgotten now that the head cult members are in jail.
		From the get-go, Lifton promises not only to show us how these people came to believe that killing nearly everyone on the planet was necessary for its salvation, but to detail why they "crossed the threshold" into action.
		Lifton's method of "seizing upon the paradox" is often welcome, as it recognizes the complexity of the situation.
	www.citypages.com /databank/20/987/article8136.asp (897 words)

	the fall collection. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Hiroshima, the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and now terrorist cults: these are the territory of Robert Jay Lifton's explorations as he probes the profound questions of death and its meaning for life.
		Robert Jay Lifton is the author of many important works including The Nazi Doctors, winner of the Los Angeles Times book prize; and Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, winner of a National Book Award.
		Lifton: I've publicly in my writing made a confession which, in a sense, I've been trying to live down ever since.
	www.forevervain.com /archives/00000069.php (1182 words)

	Conversation with Robert Jay Lifton, cover page
		Our guest is Robert Jay Lifton, who is distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
		Hiroshima, the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and now terrorist cults: these are the territory of Robert Jay Lifton's explorations as he probes the profound questions of death and its meaning for life.
		Robert Jay Lifton is the author of many important works including The Nazi Doctors, winner of the Los Angeles Times book prize; and Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, winner of a National Book Award.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people/Lifton/lifton-con0.html (265 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Who Owns Death?: Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		So authors Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell will raise eyebrows when they write: "We believe [capital punishment] will come to an end fairly soon." They're advocates of abolition ("We have opposed capital punishment for many years"), but they've tried hard to become dispassionate analysts on these pages.
		Lifton and Mitchell, longtime opponents of capital punishment, trace the history of the issue back to the GreeksAinexplicably ignoring the penalty's biblical roots.
		Lifton and Mitchell argue that, in the U.S., one of...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/038079246X (1416 words)

	Amherst College: Robert Jay Lifton, "Americans as Survivors"
		Robert Jay Lifton, "Americans as Survivors—Vietnam and Iraq":
		Robert Jay Lifton spoke on "Americans as Survivors—Vietnam and Iraq" on Nov. 9, 2004.
		Robert Jay Lifton, "Americans as Survivors—Vietnam and Iraq," Nov. 9, 2004
	www.amherst.edu /news/audio/lifton (525 words)

	Introduction: Preparation
		Lifton and I co-authored one of the early books on the psychology of dying (Living and Dying, 1974), co-authored an article in the medical journal Psychiatry on the survivors of the 1972 Buffalo Creek West Virginia flood (“The Human Meaning of Total Disaster: The Buffalo Creek Experience”), and co-edited Explorations in Psychohistory.
		This picture of Robert Lifton and me walking in Central Park was used on the book jacket for our 1974 book, Living and Dying.
		Erik Erikson, which was the most important influence on the psychohistory of Robert Lifton.
	www.frankolsonproject.org /Introduction/Introduction-Preparation.html (251 words)

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