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.
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And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.Robert Jay Lifton
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
And so I had an early but somewhat vague interest in both medicine and in what was to become, in my mind and in my work, psychiatry.
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Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.
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The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
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