Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

Trump has a mind that in many ways is always under duress, because he's always seeking to be accepted, loved. He sees himself as constantly victimized by others and by the society, from which he sees himself as fighting back. So there's always an intensity to his destructive behavior that could contribute to his false beliefs.

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.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.