The Climate Swerve

Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents us with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task ever required of humankind," what he describes as the task of mobilizing our imaginative resources toward climate sanity.

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Robert Jay Lifton
Robert Jay Lifton is a former Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology at The City University of New York. The overall themes of his work have been the holocaust and transformation. His books include Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (which won a National Book Award); The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (awarded a Los Angeles Times book prize); Home from the War: Learning from Vietnam Veterans (finalist of a National Book Award and reissued in 2005 with a new preface on the war in Iraq); Destroying the World to Save It (about the fanatical Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo); Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World; and Crimes of War: Iraq, which was co-edited with Irene Gendzier and Richard Falk.
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