Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.
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I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
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I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
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I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.
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Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
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Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
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I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing.
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I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.
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It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it.
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I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.
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