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Robert Jay Lifton

"I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there."

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"I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there."

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"It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work."
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"What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it."
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"And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing."
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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."
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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."
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"I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war."
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"Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work."
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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."
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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."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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