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#292 - Surviving Our Catastrophes: A Dialogue with Robert Jay Lifton
#292 - Surviving Our Catastrophes: A Dialogue with Robert Jay Lifton
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59 minutes
Released:
Dec 30, 2023
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In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Robert Jay Lifton about resilience, catastrophe, and survival. They discuss psychohistory, his work with survivors of Hiroshima, the death imprint for survivors and his work with Erik Erikson. They talk about Freud’s death drive and differences and similarities to the death imprint. They discuss understanding resilience and surviving COVID-19, individual and collective mourning, surviving the effects of climate change, protean self, survivor power, the realities of catastrophe, and many other topics. Robert Jay Lifton is a psychiatrist and pioneer of psychohistory. He has been a professor at the Washington School of Psychiatry, Yale University, Harvard University, the City University of New York, and Columbia University. Together with Erik Erikson, he convened the Wellfleet Psychohistory Group in 1966. He is the author of numerous books including the most recent, Surviving our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic.Website: https://www.robertjaylifton.com/ Get full access to Converging Dialogues at convergingdialogues.substack.com/subscribe
Released:
Dec 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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