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Robert Jay Lifton Quotes

1926–2025 United States

Robert Jay Lifton (May 16, 1926 – September 4, 2025) was an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory.

United States
Non-fiction authors
Psychiatrists

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Man is a symbol-forming organism. He has constant need of a meaningful inner formulation of self and world in which his own actions, and even his impulses, have some kind of "fit" with the "outside" as he perceives it.

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