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“What we call historical memory is a creature of time and place. Emotional and political needs of the present intersect with past events. For memory, like perception, can never be simply factual. All our memories are reconstructions.”

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Hiroshima in America

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Robert Jay Lifton
Robert Jay Lifton

Robert Jay Lifton is an American psychiatrist renowned for his research on psychological trauma, memory, and identity. His studies on concentration camp survivors after World War II led to the concept of psychological trauma and had a profound impact on psychotherapy and mental health. more

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