Witness to an extreme century : a memoir

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Title:

Witness to an extreme century : a memoir

Author:

Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-

Personal Author:

Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-

Publication Information:

New York : Free Press, [2011]

Physical Description:

xv, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary:

A personal account by the Harvard Medical School lecturer and political activist traces his explorations into the psychological sources and consequences of some of the past half-century's most disturbing events as experienced by its victims and perpetrators.

Language:

English

Contents:

section 1. The decision -- Method and research -- Finding a mentor -- Finding a voice--with help from friends -- Further struggles with totalism -- section 2. "Hiroshima had disappeared" -- Getting to Hiroshima -- The visceral immersion -- Entrapment by the bomb -- Dr. Hiroshima -- section 3. Vietnam and the sixties -- Responding to slaughter -- Existential evil -- "The sixties" -- Home from the war -- section 4. Nazi doctors--did it really happen? -- Strong enough stomach? -- Sitting down with Nazi doctors -- Historical encounters -- The infernal chorus -- section 5. Next steps -- Coming home -- Full circle.

Personal Subject:

Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-

Subject Term:

Historians -- United States -- Biography.

Psychiatrists -- United States -- Biography.

Political activists -- United States -- Biography.

History, Modern -- 20th century.

Military history, Modern -- 20th century.

Genocide -- History -- 20th century.

Nuclear warfare -- History -- 20th century.

Radicalism -- History -- 20th century.

War and society -- History -- 20th century.