Rebel Without a Cause
Subtitle: The Story of a Criminal Psychopath
Edition: 1st Other edition
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781590510247
Subjects: Biography: general; Criminal or forensic psychology; Offenders; Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Psychology; Hypnotism; Psychotherapy - General; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Case Studies; Antisocial personality disorde; Antisocial personality disorders; Psychoanalysis; Therapeutic use
Description: "Robert Lindner's 1944 classic Rebel Without a Cause follows the successful analysis and hypnosis of a criminal psychopath. In full transcriptions of their 46 sessions, Lindner takes his patient into the depths and recesses of his childhood memories. Plumbing the free-associative monologues for clues to unlock the causes of his patient's criminal behavior, Lindner portrays a man cut off from himself and unable to attach to others." "Following the threads uncovered in the sessions, Lindner reveals to his patient long hidden incidents from infancy and childhood that served to propel him toward a troubled and chaotic adulthood, full of armed robbery, break-ins, and random sexual encounters. With care and diligence, patient and analyst began to excavate the patient's childhood and reconstruct it as a foundation for analysis."--Jacket.