This brief 'discussion' is based on a series of radio talks the author gave over the Canadian Broadcasting System. In it he attempts an always difficult synthesis of philosophical reflections and psychological material. It was based on the six months' research he conducted in Hiroshima in 1962.

The series of interviews Dr. Lifton held in Japan with survivors of the first civilian atomic bomb explosion naturally made an unforgettable impression on him. On the grounds of that indelible experience he has, over the past decade, published a variety of works.

At this time he writes especially of man's requiring a sense of