Robert Jay Lifton, the psychiatrist and public intellectual whose groundbreaking work on the psychology of genocide shaped Holocaust and Jewish studies for the past 40 years, died on Sept. 4 at his ...

Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist and psychohistorian who wrote acclaimed books on war, violence, and the emotional cost of humankind’s capacity for inhumanity, died Thursday at his Truro home. His ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Robert Jay Lifton M.D. is an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2011 Speech as a Lecturer for the Department of Psychiatry in the ...

DEATH IN LIFE: SURVIVORS OF HIROSHIMA by Robert Jay Lifton. 594 pages. Random House. $10. John Hersey’s Hiroshima, published in 1946, consisted of 35,000 simple, meticulously arranged and muted words ...

A queasy mix of awe and anxiety consumed me after I viewed “Oppenheimer,” director Christopher Nolan’s exceptional film chronicling physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s single-minded quest to build the ...