"We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in continuous exploration and personal experiment. I have named it the 'protean self,' after Proteus, the Greek sea god of many forms."—from The Protean Self

The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation

LIFTON, ROBERT JAY

History

University of Chicago Press

Revolutionary immortality: Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese cultural revolution

Asia

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Biographical sketches show how six writers and public figures prepared for their deaths

Six Lives, Six Deaths

Yale Univ Pr

Nazi (The) Doctors, Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

Military

Basic Books

Drawing from rase histories, the author presents a comprehensive study of political propaganda methods used in China

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

Self-Help

Motivational

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

“Robert Jay Lifton offers a new conceptual framework for our understanding not only of Chinese convulsion, its causes, its surprising potency and its consequences, but of evolution in general and the strange urgency, which can become paramount, of revolution never to proclaim itself successful, never to say its job is done and its goals attained. . . . [Dr. Lifton] has made a signal contribution to the understanding of the relationship of individual psychology to historical change, and especially of the vicissitudes of human continuity . . . .Revolutionary Immortality is, I would judge, an essential study of Communist China; more than that, it is an original, intellectually exciting, gracefully written and wholly accessible essay on an aspect of human individual and mass psychology as it operates in contemporary revolutionary circumstances around the world.” ―Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times This new edition of Revolutionary Immortality coincides with two interesting rediscoveries in American intellectual life―that of China and that of death. The book happens to be about both.

Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Norton Library (Paperback)) (N797)

W.W.Norton&Company

Boundaries: Psychological Man in Revolution by Robert Jay Lifton

Boundaries;: Psychological man in revolution

Random House, New York

Essays on History and Human Survival from the viewpoint of a Psychohistorian

History and Human Survival: Essays on the Young and Old, Survivors and the Dead, Peace and War, and on Contemporary Psychohistory.

Random House]

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeWith a new preface by the author In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in the Nazi genocide. Now updated with a new preface, The Nazi Doctors remains the definitive work on the Nazi medical atrocities, a chilling exposé of the banality of evil at its epitome, and a sobering reminder of the darkest side of human nature.

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

Europe

The Protean Self: Human Resilience In An Age Of Fragmentation

”Proteanism”or the protean selfdescribes a psychological phenomenon integral to our times. We live in a world marked by breathtaking historical change and instantaneous global communication. Our lives seem utterly unpredictable: there are few absolutes. Rather than collapsing under these threats and pulls, Robert Jay Lifton tells us, the self turns out to be remarkably resilient. Like the Greek god Proteaus, who was able to change shape in response to crisis, we create new psychological combinations, immersing ourselves in fresh and surprising endeavors over our lifetimes.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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