{"product_id":"surviving-our-catastrophes-resilience-and-renewal-from-hiroshima-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-hardcover","title":"Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the Covid-19 Pandemic - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Jay Lifton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom 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 pandemic--and collectively heal \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Lifton shows us why we must confront reality in order to save democracy.\" --Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eOzone Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls forth his life's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 world's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurviving Our Catastrophes\u003c\/em\u003e offers compelling examples of \"survivor power\" and makes clear that we will not move forward by denying the true extent of the pandemic's destruction. Instead, we must truly reckon with COVID-19's effects on ourselves and society--and find individual and collective forms of renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pioneer in the field of psychohistory, \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Jay Lifton\u003c\/strong\u003e is a psychiatrist and author best known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and for his theory of thought reform and cult behavior. He has written over twenty books, including many seminal works in the field such as the National Book Award-winning \u003cem\u003eDeath in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Nazi Doctors\u003c\/em\u003e, National Book Award-nominated \u003cem\u003eHome from the War\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as \u003cem\u003eThe Climate Swerve\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLosing Reality\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSurviving Our Catastrophes\u003c\/em\u003e (all from The New Press). He has taught at Yale University, Harvard University, and the City University of New York. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47374757986482,"sku":"9781620978153","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/378e628c412946fef887b75d70f5b0c4.webp?v=1777677333","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/surviving-our-catastrophes-resilience-and-renewal-from-hiroshima-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}