Robert Jay Lifton/Bibliography

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Author or coathor

• Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation With the World, Nation Books, 2003.
• Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism, Owl Books, 2000.
• The Nazi doctors: medical killing and the psychology of genocide Basic Books, 2000. Online for personal use
• (With Greg Mitchell) Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions, Morrow, 2000.
• (With Greg Mitchell) Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial, Putnam's (New York City), 1995.
• The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation, Basic Books, 1993.
• (With Eric Markusen) The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat, Basic Books, 1990.
• The Future of Immortality and Other Essays for a Nuclear Age, Basic Books, 1987.
• (With Richard A. Falk) Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case against Nuclearism, Basic Books (New York City), 1982.
• (With Shuichi Kato and Michael Reich) Six Lives/Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan (originally published in Japanese as Nihonjin no shiseikan, 1977), Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1979.
• The Broken Connection: On Death and the Continuity of Life, Simon & Schuster, 1979.
• Psychobirds, Countryman Press, 1978.
• The Life of the Self: Toward a New Psychology, Simon & Schuster, 1976.
• (With Eric Olson) Living and Dying, Praeger, 1974.
• Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor Executioners, Simon & Schuster (New York City), 1973.
• History and Human Survival: Essays on the Young and the Old, Survivors and the Dead, Peace and War, and on Contemporary Psychohistory, Random House, 1970.
• Birds, Words, and Birds (cartoons), Random House, 1969.
• Boundaries, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Toronto), 1969, published as Boundaries: Psychological Man in Revolution, Random House, 1970.
• Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, Random House (New York City), 1968.
• Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Random House, 1968.
• Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, Norton (New York City), 1961. edited excerpts available online

Editor

• The Woman in America, Houghton (Boston), 1965.
• America and the Asian Revolutions, Trans-Action Books, 1970, second edition, 1973.
• (With Richard A. Falk and Gabriel Kolko) Crimes of War: A Legal, Political-Documentary, and Psychological Inquiry into the Responsibilities of Leaders, Citizens, and Soldiers for Criminal Acts of War, Random House, 1971.
• (With Eric Olson) Explorations in Psychohistory: The Wellfleet Papers, Simon & Schuster, 1975.
• (With Eric Chivian, Susanna Chivian, and John E. Mack) Last Aid: The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War, W. H. Freeman, 1982.
• (With Nicholas Humphrey) In a Dark Time: Images for Survival, Harvard University Press, 1984.