Robert Jay Lifton

The Climate Swerve

Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival

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Produktbeschreibung

"Lifton suggests ... evidence of how we might call upon the human mind, 'our greatest evolutionary asset,' to translate a growing species of awareness into action to sustain our habitat and civilization"--Amazon.co

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 297g
• ISBN-13: 9781620973479
• ISBN-10: 1620973472
• Artikelnr.: 50016351

Autorenporträt

A pioneer in the field of psychohistory, Robert Jay Lifton is a psychiatrist and author best known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and for his theory of thought reform and cult behavior. He has written over twenty books, including many seminal works in the field such as the National Book Award–winning Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning The Nazi Doctors, National Book Award–nominated Home from the War, as well as The Climate Swerve, Losing Reality, and Surviving Our Catastrophes (all from The New Press). He has taught at Yale University, Harvard University, and the City University of New York. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.