Rebel Without a Cause: The Story of A Criminal Psychopath

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This volume follows the successful analysis and hypnosis of a criminal psychopath, Harold. 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 Harold's criminal behaviour, Lindner portrays a man cut off from himself and unable to attach to others. Following the threads uncovered in the sessions, Lindner reveals to Harold long-hidden incidents from his 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 begin to excavate events from Harold's childhood and reconstruct them as a foundation for analysis, allowing Harold to confront his demons.

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"This book may develop to be epochal in its field. The indomitable pioneering implicit in Dr. Lindner's quest of the real secret of criminalism- the causes as contrasted with the symptoms- will surely one day prevail over the indifference and cynicism that stalks the dismal corridors of prisons and pervades the sterile formalism of criminal courts." The New York Times "The most exciting and one of the most deeply and tragically human stories I have read in a long time." The New Republic

Author Bio

Dr. Robert M. Lindner was the author of numerous seminal texts on psychoanalysis, including The Fifty-Minute Hour (Other Press edition 2002) and Must You Conform He died in 1956 at the height of his career.