Word: lifton
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...offered a convincing answer, certainly not the participants themselves. Only last week a West Berlin court convicted a former SS doctor of having murdered scores of inmates at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria-"sometimes out of pure boredom," said the judge. For Yale Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who has spent much of his professional life examining disaster, understanding the doctors of the Holocaust has now become a particularly grim challenge...
...presented any evidence that anyone else helped Ray plot the murder of King or instigated the crime. After reading the various accounts of other writers on Ray's activities before and after the murder, Freelancers Jeff Cohen and David S. Lifton claimed in a New Times article last April that Raoul probably was Ray's brother Jerry, who works at a country club near Chicago. They base that theory-a matter of pure conjecture-on the sequence of Ray's various mentions of both Raoul and his brother in these accounts. They also note that Jerry much...
Orne was followed to the stand by Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, 49, a Yale psychiatry professor, prolific author (Revolutionary Immortality, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism) and, like West, one of the nation's outstanding experts on mind control. Lifton interviewed hundreds of P.O.W.s after the Korean War, as well as dozens of victims of Chinese Communist brainwashing; he also conducted a detailed study of survivors of the Hiroshima holocaust...
...Robert Jay Lifton, 49, research psychiatrist at Yale and prolific author (Revolutionary Immortality). He interviewed hundreds of U.S. P.O.W.s after the Korean War and dozens of survivors of China's postrevolutionary indoctrination wave of hsi nao (literally, brainwashing...
Kozol angered Patty during a prison interview by suggesting that she engineered her own abduction. When called to testify, he will probably try to cast doubt on her assertion that she was an unwilling convert to the S.L.A. cause. By contrast, Lifton believes young people are by far the most vulnerable to brainwashing. The profile that he has drawn of the most susceptible bears a striking resemblance to Patty: "Enormous aspiration toward social change and human brotherhood, which might be connected, under pressure, with various forms of individual guilt over the way one has lived one's life...