Surviving Our Catastrophes (eBook)

Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Robert Jay Lifton (Autor)

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2023
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-829-0 (ISBN)

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From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of survivor power to understand the upheaval and death caused by the COVID-19 pandemicand collectively healLifton shows us why we must confront reality in order to save democracy. Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofOzone JournalIn this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls forth his lifes work to show us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is a thought-provoking examination of life in the face of COVID-19 from one of the most profound thinkers of our time.When the people of Hiroshima experienced the unspeakable horror of the atomic bombing, they responded by creating an activist city of peace. Survivors of the Nazi death camps took the lead in combating mass killing of any kind and converted their experience into art and literature that demonstrated the resilience of the human spirit. Drawing on the remarkably life-affirming responses of survivors of such atrocities, Lifton, one of the worlds foremost thinkers on why we humans do such awful things to each other (Bill Moyers), shows readers how we can carry on and live meaningful lives even in the face of the tragic and the absurd.Surviving Our Catastrophes offers compelling examples of survivor power and makes clear that we will not move forward by denying the true extent of the pandemics destruction. Instead, we must truly reckon with COVID-19s effects on ourselves and societyand find individual and collective forms of renewal.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Anthony Fauci • atomic bomb • Auschwitz • books by psychiatrists • chronic illness • Covid • Covid-19 • Disaster Response • Donald Trump • Hiroshima • living with illness • long covid • mai lai massacre • Mind Control • Nagasaki • Nazi • Pandemic • Psychohistory • psychology books • sense of normalcy • survivors guilt • the body keeps the score • Trauma response
• ISBN-10: 1-62097-829-6 / 1620978296
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-829-0 / 9781620978290