Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry

by Robert Jay Lifton

Book Overview

A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control

In this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political movements and fanatical religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620974991
• ISBN13: 9781620974995
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 7.6"