Rebel Without a Cause The Story of A Criminal Psychopath
, by LINDNER, ROBERT M.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781590510247 | 1590510240
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/15/2003
Robert Lindner's 1944 classicRebel Without a Causefollows the successful analysis and hypnosis of a criminal psychopath, Harold. In full transcriptions of their forty-six 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 behavior, Lindner portrays a man cut off from himself and unable to attach himself to others. 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. Heralded as a classic upon its publication,Rebel Without a Causeis the tale of a masterful analysis that is still relevant today, against the complex issues of sanity, rehabilitation, and crime that resonate in our legal system.