Quotes Robert Jay Lifton

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an a...

And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to...

And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategi...

And so I had an early but somewhat vague interest in both me...

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports mo...

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, t...

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just list...

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might...

I did the first study because I had been exposed to somethin...

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read ...

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of...

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that w...

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain a...

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and ra...

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military sav...

It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons tha...

My father in particular was a progressive person, a person w...

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was th...

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are f...

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influen...

The other thing that happened was my last military assignmen...

What I found was when I started my first study, and then in ...

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New...

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all throug...