Robert Jay Lifton Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Doctors and the Holocaust

Robert Jay Lifton, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at John Jay College, City University of New York, is renowned in three disciplines: history, psychology, and sociology. His honors include the Gandhi Peace Award (1984), the National Book Award for sciences (1969), and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history (1987). Among Lifton s more than twenty books are two major contributions to Holocaust literature: The Nazi Doctors and The Genocidal Mentality. In his lecture during HMW 1996, Lifton combined insights from these two works.