BOOKS
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Death in Life
Winner of the National Book Award
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The Nazi Doctors
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
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Home from the War
Nominated for a National Book Award
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Witness to an Extreme Century
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Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
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The Protean Self
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Destroying the World to Save it
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The Climate Swerve
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Losing Reality
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Surviving our Catastrophes
FULL LIST OF BOOKS
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of ‘Brainwashing’ in China. W. W. Norton & Company, 1961
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima. Basic Books, 1968.
Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. W. W. Norton & Company, 1968
History and Human Survival: Essays on the Young and the Old, Survivors and the Dead, Peace and War, and on Contemporary Psychohistory. Random House, 1970.
Boundaries: Psychological Man in Revolution, Random House, 1970.
Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor Executioners. Simon & Schuster, 1973.
Living and Dying. (With Eric Olson) Praeger, 1974.
The Life of the Self: Toward a New Psychology. Simon & Schuster, 1976.
Six Lives/Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan. (With Shuichi Kato and Michael Reich) Yale University Press, 1979.
The Broken Connection: On Death and the Continuity of Life. Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case against Nuclearism. (With Richard A. Falk) Basic Books, 1982.
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. Basic Books, 1986.
The Future of Immortality: and Other Essays for a Nuclear Age. Basic Books, 1987.
The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat. (With Eric Markusen) Basic Books, 1990.
The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation. Basic Books, 1993.
Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial. (With Greg Mitchell) Putnam’s, 1995.
Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyō, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. Metropolitan Books, 1999.
Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions. (With Greg Mitchell) Morrow, 2000.
Superpower Syndrome: America’s Apocalyptic Confrontation With the World. Nation Books, 2003.
Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir. Free Press, 2011.
The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival. The New Press, 2017.
Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry. The New Press, 2019.
Surviving our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The New Press, 2023.
EDITED VOLUMES
The Woman in America. Houghton, 1965.
America and the Asian Revolutions. Transaction Publishers, 1970.
Crimes of War: A Legal, Political-Documentary, and Psychological Inquiry into the Responsibilities of Leaders, Citizens, and Soldiers for Criminal Acts of War. (With Richard A. Falk and Gabriel Kolko) Random House, 1971.
Explorations in Psychohistory: The Wellfleet Papers. (With Eric Olson) Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Last Aid: The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War. (With Eric Chivian, Susanna Chivian, and John E. Mack) W. H. Freeman, 1982.
In a Dark Time: Images for Survival. (With Nicholas Humphrey) Harvard University Press, 1984.
Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients. (With Jacob D. Lindy) Routledge, 2001.
Crimes of War: Iraq. (With Richard A. Falk and Irene L. Gendzier) Nation Books, 2006
BIRD CARTOONS
Birds. Random House, 1969.
Psychobirds. Countryman Press, 1978.