Robert Jay Lifton
Robert Jay Lifton · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychiatrist and pioneer of psychohistory and trauma studies
1926, Brooklyn, New York, United States
United States (New York, Massachusetts)
Robert Jay Lifton is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Psychiatrist and pioneer of psychohistory and trauma studies
Robert Jay Lifton is a psychiatrist and a pioneer of psychohistory and the study of psychological trauma, whose books on the survivors of Hiroshima ('Death in Life'), Nazi doctors, thought reform and 'psychohistory' shaped how we understand mass violence and its effects. He introduced influential concepts such as the 'protean self.' Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, he is of documented Jewish origin.
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Psychiatrist and pioneer of psychohistory and trauma studies
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
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