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Losing RealityCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781620979532 Format: Trade paperback (US) Year: 2025 Publisher: New Press, The Description: A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control. In this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea:
Condition: BRAND NEWISBN: 9781620979532
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2025
Publisher: New Press, The
Description:
A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control.
In this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political movements and fanatical religious cults may be much closer than anyone thought. Exploring the most extreme manifestations of human zealotry, Lifton highlights an array of leaders from Mao to Hitler to the Japanese apocalyptic cult leader Shk Asahara to Donald Trump who have sought the control of human minds and the ownership of reality.
Lifton has spent decades exploring psychological extremism. His pioneering concept of the 'Eight Deadly Sins' of ideological totalism originally devised to identify 'brainwashing' (or 'thought reform') in political movements-has been widely quoted in writings about cults, and embraced by members and former members of religious cults seeking to understand their experiences.
In Losing Reality Lifton makes clear that the apocalyptic impulse that of destroying the world in order to remake it in purified form is not limited to religious groups but is prominent in extremist political movements such as Nazism and Chinese Communism, and also in groups surrounding Donald Trump. Lifton applies his concept of 'malignant normality' to Trump's efforts to render his destructive falsehoods a routine part of American life. But Lifton sees the human species as capable of 'regaining reality' by means of ou
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