Colleagues:

I am delighted to announce that Robert Jay Lifton will be speaking at Russell Sage College in Troy, NY on Nov. 2 in Schacht Auditorium at 7:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the new Sage Center on Violence and Healing and supported by funds from the Armenian speakers program Dr. Lifton's talk is entitled:

What follows is a biographical piece on Dr. Lifton and a list of some of his best known books.

Robert Jay Lifton

         Born in New York 1926, medical degree for
         New York Medical College 1948, Air Force
         psychiatrist serving in the United States, Japan
         and Korea 1941-53. He is Distinguished
         Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, The
         City University of New York and Director of
         the Center on Violence and Human Survival at
         John Jay College of Criminal Justice, having
         held a research professorship of psychiatry at
         Yale University for more than two decades. His
         writings, published in more than twenty
         contemporary classics, cover issues such as
         genocide, Nazi doctors, nuclear weapons and
         their impact on death symbolism, Hiroshima
         survivors, Chinese thought reform and the
         Cultural Revolution, the Vietnam War
         experience and veterans. He has received
         dozens of prestigious awards, and no less than
         12 honorary degrees. He has been an active
         member of Physicians for Social Responsibility
         since 1962 and is a founding member of the
         International Physicians for the Prevention of
         Nuclear War. He has written "Indefensible
         Weapons"

      Among Dr. Lifton's best known works are:

      The Broken Connection : On Death and the Continuity of Life
      by Robert Jay Lifton. Paperback (March 1996)

      Cults in Our Midst
      by Margaret Thaler Singer, et al. Paperback (October 1996)

      Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives
      by Margaret Thaler Singer, et al. Hardcover (May 1995)

      Destroying the World to Save It : Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic
      Violence, and the the New Global Terrorism
      by Robert Jay Lifton. Hardcover (October 1999)

      Exposure : Victims of Radiation Speak Out
      by Chugoku Newspaper, et al. Paperback (April 1996)

      Hiroshima in America : A Half Century of Denial
      by Robert Jay Lifton, Greg Mitchell(Contributor). Paperback
      (August 1996)

      In a Dark Time
      by Robert J. Lifton(Editor), Nicholas Humphrey(Editor). Hardcover
      (December 1984)

      Indefensible Weapons : The Political and Psychological Case
      Against Nuclearism
      by Robert Jay Lifton, Richard Falk. Paperback (November 1998)


      The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of
      Genocide
      by Robert Jay Lifton(Introduction). Paperback (August 2000)


      The Protean Self : Human Resilience in an Age of
      Fragmentation
      by Robert Jay Lifton. Paperback (October 1999)


      Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation
      by Robert Jay Lifton. Paperback (January 1995)

      Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism : A Study of
      Brainwashing in China
      by Robert Jay Lifton. Paperback (July 1989)

      When They Came to Take My Father-- : Voices of the
      Holocaust
      by Mark Seliger(Editor), et al. Hardcover (January 1996)

      America and the Asian Revolutions
      by Robert J. Lifton. Hardcover (June 1973)

     Death in Life : Survivors of Hiroshima
     by Robert Jay Lifton. Paperback (October 1991)

     Exposure; Victims of Radiation Speak Out
     by Kirsten McIvor(Translator), Robert J. Lifton(Introduction).
     Hardcover (August 1992)

     Six Lives, Six Deaths : Portraits from Modern Japan
     by Robert Jay Lifton, et al. Hardcover (February 1979)

     Who Owns Death : Capital Punishment, the American
     Conscience, and the End of Executions
     by Greg Mitchell, Robert Jay Lifton. Hardcover (November 2000)


     Boundaries; psychological man in revolution
     by Robert Jay Lifton.


     Death in Life : Survivors of Hiroshima
     by Robert J. Lifton.


     Explorations in Psychohistory : The Wellfleet Papers
     by Robert J. Lifton, Eric Olson(Editor).


     The Future of Immortality : And Other Essays for a Nuclear
     Age
     by Robert Lifton.

     The Genocidal Mentality : Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat
     by Robert J. Lifton.

     Hiroshima in America : 50 Years of Denial
     by Robert J. Lifton.

     History and Human Survival; Essays on the Young and Old,
     Survivors and the Dead, Peace and War, and on
     Contemporary Psychohistory.
     by Robert Jay, Lifton.


     Home from the War : Learning from Vietnam Veterans
     by Robert Jay Lifton.


     Life of the Self : Toward a New Psychology
     by Robert Jay Lifton.

     Living and Dying
     by Robert J. Lifton.


     Revolutionary Immortality : Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese
     Cultural Revolution  by Robert Jay, Lifton.