Witness to an Extreme Century by Robert Jay Lifton

I read this on vacation in Florida over Thanksgiving 2011. Lifton is a well-known and groundbreaking psychoanalytical researcher, and he recounts his experiences in his studies as well as in areas like agitating against the Vietnam War (sit-in at the Supreme Court for example). He had four main areas of study, each interesting in its content and the techniques he pioneered.

1. Chinese Mind Control victims
2. Survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima
3. Nazi doctors
4. Vietnam veterans who oppose the war

I was not familiar with Lifton, but this made me want to read his previous books on Nazi doctors and on his concept of Totalism.