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Climate Change and the Human Mind:

A Noted Psychiatrist Weighs In
Author Robert Jay Lifton has probed the psyches of barbaric Nazi doctors and Hiroshima survivors.

Now, he is focusing on how people respond to the mounting evidence of climate change and is finding some reasons for hope.
Interview
By Diane Toomey • October 26, 2017
Psychiatrist and historian Robert Jay Lifton has delved deep into the some of the darkest issues and most traumatic events of the 20th century with his research into the mindset of Nazi doctors, terrorism, the experiences of prisoners of war, and the aftermath of nuclear attack, which he chronicled in Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, winner of a National Book Award.
Now, at the age of 91, Lifton has turned his attention to climate change. In his new book, The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival, Lifton argues that we are…