Rebel Without a Cause

The Story of A Criminal Psychopath

Robert M. Lindner

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Other Press LLC
15 July 2003

Biography: general; Offenders; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Criminal or forensic psychology

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 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 Cause is 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.

By: Robert M. Lindner
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 352g
ISBN: 9781590510247
ISBN 10: 1590510240
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 July 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Robert M. Lindner 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.

Reviews for Rebel Without a Cause: The Story of A Criminal Psychopath

"""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"