Trauma and self / edited by Charles B. Strozier and Michael Flynn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Crime and memory / Judith Lewis Herman -- The adopted self / Betty Jean Lifton -- Traumatic departures : survival and history in Freud / Cathy Caruth -- The contextual self / Paul L. Wachtel -- Some reflections on twentieth-century violence and the soft apocalypse / Todd Gitlin -- Thought reform today / Margaret Thaler Singer -- Facts, truth, and social responsibility : reflections of a developmental scientist / Frances Degen Horowitz -- Robert Jay Lifton and biology : the doctor is in--knock twice / Lionel Tiger -- Violence, selfhood, and the ambiguities of truth / Lillian Feder -- Socialism and human nature, once again / Norman Birnbaum -- Erik Erikson and Robert Lifton : the pattern of a relationship / Lawrence J. Friedman -- Mélusine as feminist : shape-shifting in surrealism / Mary Ann Caws -- The protean woman : anxiety and opportunity / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein -- A quest of eternal life / John S. Dunne -- The second scar / Richard Sennett -- The Japanese psyche : myth and reality / Takeo Doi -- Symbolic immortality in modern Japanese literature / David G. Goodman -- Reflections on the self of homo Hippocraticus and the quest for symbolic immortality / Phyllis Palgi, with Joshua Dorban -- Illicit stories / Peter Brooks -- Life in death / Noel Walsh -- "How pliant is science?" / Gerald Holton -- Confidentiality : in the college presidential search process and beyond / David Riesman -- Shame and public life / Jean Bethke Elshtain.