One always learns from, and is stimulated by, the publications and presentations of Robert Lifton. He has addressed very significant areas of human behavior and its pathologies. His first observations give his scholarly research a data base. His understanding of his findings, and his integration of them with existing theoretical positions, results in new and creative syntheses which not only ring true, and advance our further understanding, but have direct applications to the individual and the society in which he lives.

Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at John Jay College, The City University of New York, has studied major catastrophic traumas of our time which have affected individuals and communities. These include the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. His data are actual interviews with individuals involved in these traumas. He also focuses