Broken Connection - Softcover

Lifton, Robert J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465007767 ISBN 13: 9780465007769

Publisher: Basic Books, 1983

Synopsis

The eminent, award-winning psychologist examines the phenomenon of death and the flow of life, emphasizing the vital importance to the individual's life of a sense of continuity and of an awareness and acceptance of death

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The unique human awareness of our own mortality enables us to ensure our perpetuation beyond death through our impact on others. This continuity of life has been profoundly shaken by the advent of wars of mass destruction, genocide, and the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. In The Broken Connection, Robert Jay Lifton, one of America's foremost thinkers and preeminent psychiatrists, explores the inescapable 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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0465007767
• ISBN 13: 9780465007769
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 505