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.
- ISBN10 0880488743
- ISBN13 9780880488747
- Publish Date 31 May 1996 (first published 24 December 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint American Psychiatric Association Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 512
- Language English