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Robert Jay Lifton

"But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school."

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"Medical physics is an applied area of physics."

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"Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it."

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"Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"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."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school."

Medical

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Robert Jay Lifton
"It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it."

Politics

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Robert Jay Lifton
"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."

Thought

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Robert Jay Lifton
"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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Robert Jay Lifton
"I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"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."

Thought

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Robert Jay Lifton
"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."

Death

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Robert Jay Lifton
"I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"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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