

An edition of The broken connection (1979)
on death and the continuity of life
By Robert Jay Lifton
Publish Date
1979
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Language
eng
Pages
495
Description:
The unique human awareness of our own mortality enables us to ensure our perpetuation beyond death through our impact on others. This continuity of life has been profoundly shaken by the advent of wars of mass destruction, genocide, and the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. In The Broken Connection, Robert Jay Lifton, one of America's foremost thinkers and preeminent psychiatrists, explores the inescapable 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.
subjects: Death, Psychological aspects of Death, Psychological aspects, Levenscyclus (sociale wetenschappen, biologie), Onsterfelijkheid, Attitude to Death, Psychiatrie, Aspect psychologique, Mort, Dood, 77.17 neo-Freudians, Sterven, Psychologische aspecten, Psychiatry, case studies, Life, Bereavement, Psychology