Robert Jay Lifton

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf author
psychologist
gptkbp:affiliatedWith gptkb:City_University_of_New_York
gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
gptkbp:awardedBy National Book Award
gptkbp:birthDate 1926-05-16
gptkbp:bornIn gptkb:New_York_City
gptkbp:fieldOfStudy history
psychology
sociology
psychohistory
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Robert Jay Lifton
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Carl_Jung
gptkb:Erik_Erikson
gptkb:Sigmund_Freud
gptkbp:knownFor concept of 'nuclear existentialism'
work on psychological effects of war
studies_on_survivors_of_Hiroshima
gptkbp:notableFeature psychological trauma
psychological resilience
nuclear threat
the relationship between science and ethics
cultural trauma
survivor guilt
identity in crisis
moral injury
psychological effects of totalitarianism
the concept of the 'protean self'
the impact of war on the psyche
the role of memory in trauma
gptkbp:wrote Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Death_in_Life:_Survivors_of_Hiroshima
The_Protean_Self:_Human_Resilience_in_an_Age_of_Fragmentation