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Charles B. Strozier

Charles B. Strozier is a historian and psychoanalyst, emeritus professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York, and author of Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America.


Articles by Charles B. Strozier

Psychological reflections on the tragic dynamics of war

By Charles B. Strozier | Opinion
soldier with gas mask

Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: the fundamentalist mindset

By Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman | Special Topics
photo of Vladimir Putin from official Twitter page of Kremlin

Inside Putin’s head: Paranoid? Calculating? Obsessed by the conspiracy theories of a rehabilitated Russian fascist?

By Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion
"The Angel of Death," sculpture on a funeral gondola, Venice. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1951.

The psychological pandemic: Can we confront our death anxiety?

By Robert Jay Lifton, Charles B. Strozier | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk
Hiroshima blast and fire damage, US Strategic Bombing Survey map.

Hiroshima and COVID-19

By Robert Jay Lifton, Charles B. Strozier | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons