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...physicians don't collaborate with the government and persuade them to abandon nuclear weapons, "our technological capacity might exceed our moral capabilities," Robert J. Lifton, Yale professor of psychiatry, said Saturday
...speakers did not relish depicting the gruesome scenario; as psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton noted, "It's painful-we're filling our heads with images of annihilation." But they persevered, often eloquently, because they were crusading for a universally vital cause-the prevention of a nuclear holocaust...
Many of the macabre metaphors were expressed in religious terms, ranging from "being blown back to Genesis" to "Armageddon." In particular, Lifton argued that a "new religion called 'nuclearism' the embrace and worship of these weapons of destruction-has been formed...
First meetings between adopted brothers and sisters can have an erotic aspect, with prolonged hugging, kissing and nervous jokes about sleeping together. Indeed, says Betty Jean Lifton, an adoptee and the author of Lost and Found...
...Lifton sees another, more controversial psychological device at work. Because most cultures fear dying, one way to combat that dread is to look around for an enemy that symbolizes death. For the Nazis, it was the Jews, who had long been portrayed as Christ killers. Says Lifton: "If you view the Jews as death-tainted, then killing them seems to serve life." In Lifton's eyes, those who look upon the Nazis or their medical henchmen simply as maddened sadists are on the wrong track. "Most killing is not done out of sadism, not even most Nazi killing," says...