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REVOLUTIONARY IMMORTALITY by Robert Jay Lifton. 178 pages. Random House...
Militant Rectitude. In Revolutionary Immortality, China's bomb is viewed as a deterrent to be employed against any foreign power that tries to snuff out the revolution. Robert Jay Lifton, an Asian specialist and psychiatry research professor at Yale, believes that the death of the revolution-whether by nuclear means or otherwise-is Chairman Mao's greatest fear...
...FRED B. LIFTON...
DEATH IN LIFE: SURVIVORS OF HIROSHIMA, by Robert Jay Lifton. As he sifts the recollections of 75 persons who lived through the first atomic bombing, an American psychiatrist discerns the effects of large-scale disasters on behavior...
Psychic "opening up," Lifton concludes, becomes in itself a treasured experience. This is the goal of numerous emotional experiments in contemporary life-including the use of psychedelic drugs. Lifton is quick to add, however, that these drugs can produce their own brand of psychic numbing...