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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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"Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable."

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Robert Jay Lifton
"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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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
"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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Robert Jay Lifton
"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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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."

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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."

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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."

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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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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."

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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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