the crash of a V-2 rocket with shaved monkeys on-board.

• +..lost tapes
• +..Synthmaster"
• +.. kosmiche musik

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In my work I have seen this characteristic of the self—what I would now call an engine of symbolization—as an antidote to the destructive projects I have studied. At the end of my book on the coercive process of thought reform, I wrote a chapter on antithetical expressions of “open personal change.” In my work on Hiroshima, I described how some exposed to the bomb could take on a “survivor mission,” which enabled them to transform their sense of self from passive victim to active witness and to travel around the world telling their stories. In my research on anti-war Vietnam veterans, I found that they could undergo significant change in worldview and in sense of self much more quickly than our prior psychological views about adult change would allow; and they could experience what I called “animating guilt” by converting self-condemnation into the anxiety of responsibility in their public opposition to the war. Even in my work with Auschwitz survivors I encountered prisoner doctors (mostly Jewish, but also non-Jewish Poles and Germans) who, when given an opportunity to provide minimal medical care, managed to remain genuine healers.
Lifton, Robert Jay