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The Broken Connection

On Death and the Continuity of Life
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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.
Prologue: the lost theme. Death and immortality. Death and emotion -- psychiatric boundaries. Death and history -- the nuclear image. Epilogue: awareness and renewal. Appendixes.
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