Robert Jay Lifton

It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#astounded #because #concerns #deep #find

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#anything #baseball #books #called #else

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#any #created #every #might #obliterated

I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#books #feeling #i #made #mark

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#especially #i #learned #lot #own

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#dimension #doctor #early #envisioned #healing

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#confused #each #i #i tried #meant

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#boy #brooklyn #childhood #i #i was born

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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