Rebel without a Cause: The Story of a Criminal Psychopath
Robert Lindner's 1944 classic Rebel Without a Cause follows 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...
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First published in 1944, this work contains the full transcriptions of 46 hour-long sessions of hypnoanalysis, in which psychoanalyst Lindner attempted to, and felt he succeeded in, exposing the hidden psychodynamics of "criminal psychopathology," rooted in painful memories from the past that the subject had suppressed. The author argues that hypnoanalysis substantiates and verifies the concepts that psychonalysis used to explain behavior dynamics. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
IntroductionAuthor's PrefaceThe Problem: Criminal Psychopathy1IPsychological Aspects1IIPhysiological Aspects9IIISociological Aspects12IVPolitical Aspects13The Method: Hypnoanalysis15IHistory and Characteristics15IITechnique18The Results25Summary285IHypnoanalytic Therapy285IIConclusions288Bibliography290Index293
