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Title Statement | Surviving our catastrophes: resilience and renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 pandemic / Robert Jay Lifton. |
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Author | Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- |
Publication | New York: The New Press,2023. |
Extent of Item | xxxvii, 150 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781620978153 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07222006 |
Contents | Catastrophe and survivors --The prophetic survivors of Hiroshima --The struggle for meaning --Rejecting catastrophe and survival --The mourning paradox --Activist witnessing --The legacy of survivors --Afterword: imagining the real. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary | In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls forth his life's work to show us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is a thought-provoking examination of life in the face of COVID-19 from one of the most profound thinkers of our time. When the people of Hiroshima experienced the unspeakable horror of the atomic bombing, they responded by creating an activist "city of peace." Survivors of the Nazi death camps took the lead in combating mass killing of any kind and converted their experience into art and literature that demonstrated the resilience of the human spirit. Drawing on the remarkably life-affirming responses of survivors of such atrocities, Lifton, "one of the world's foremost thinkers on why we humans do such awful things to each other" (Bill Moyers), shows readers how we can carry on and live meaningful lives even in the face of the tragic and the absurd -- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Disaster victims--Psychology |
Disasters--Psychological aspects | |
Life change events | |
Resilience (Personality trait) | |
Survival--Psychological aspects |