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Robert Jay Lifton

American psychiatrist and author (1926-2025).

Born May 16th, 1926 in Brooklyn.

Died September 4th, 2025 at 99 years old in Truro. [ref]

Occupations
historian, peace activist, psychiatrist, university teacher, writer
Wikipedia

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner