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But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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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. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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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. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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