The Broken Connection: On Death and the Continuity of Life
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (634 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465007767 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 505 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Robert Jay Lifton is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The Graduate School, and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Nazi Doctors, Death in Life, and The Life of the Self.
"What Death Reveals about Life" according to Michael P. McGarry. In ancient times, mythological systems and religious authorities told us what to think about death. How do we think about death in the modern secular world? The pre-eminent psychologist Robert Jay Lifton thinks that is one of the most important questions facing us today. This book looks at the question of death in the big pic. Broken Connection Lifton is one of the more thought provoking writers of our time. I first read Nazi Doctors some years ago and have been a fan of his ever since. Broken Connections does not disappoint.. flapping in traumatized laughter puddle said unfair opportunity for irony. I find it interesting to look at a book like this from some point of view that is obsessed with modern situations that had yet to be contrived in 1979, when the book was written, and the upchuck of tremendous repudiations for a history that produces me as an antidote to forthcoming bastards of the same nature. A social system
"A passionate book, at grips with the largest issues of our times."-- "New York Times Book Review""This is a brilliantly written work of scholarship. "The Broken Connection" is a seminal work that will probably be referred to for some years to come."-- "American Journal of Psychiatry""A truly major work. Armed with fearlessness (or raw courage), wide learning, and deep sensitivity, the distinguished post-Freudian psychiatrist and public philosopher takes us on a magnificent journey."-- "Chicago Tribune Book World"
In The Broken Connection, Robert Jay Lifton, one of America's foremost thinkers and preeminent psychiatrists, explores the connections between death and life, the psychiatric disorders that arise from these connections, and the advent of the nuclear age which has jeopardized any attempts to ensure the perpetuation of the self beyond death.