Description
Book SynopsisIn The Broken Connection, Robert Jay Lifton, one of America's foremost thinkers and preeminent psychiatrists, explores the 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.
Trade ReviewA passionate book, at grips with the largest issues of our times.
* New York Times Book Review *
This is a brilliantly written work of scholarship. The Broken Connection is a seminal work that will probably be referred to for some years to come.
* American Journal of Psychiatry *
A truly major work. Armed with fearlessness (or raw courage), wide learning, and deep sensitivity, the distinguished post-Freudian psychiatrist and public philosopher takes us on a magnificent journey.
* Chicago Tribune Book World *
Table of ContentsPrologue: the lost theme. Death and immortality. Death and emotion—psychiatric boundaries. Death and history—the nuclear image. Epilogue: awareness and renewal. Appendixes.
