The Fifty-Minute Hour

Robert Lindner, Jonathan Lear

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English

Other Press
17 June 1999

Psychology; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

""A fascinating mixture of traditional psychoanalytic thinking with clinical strategies that even today would be considered creative and controversial, The Fifty-Minute Hour has never failed to capture the imagination. . . . No student's education in psychotherapy is complete without reading this book. Decades after its original publication, it still stands as a pioneering landmark in the history of psychotherapy.""-John Suler

By: Robert Lindner
Introduction by: Jonathan Lear
Imprint: Other Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 346g
ISBN: 9781892746245
ISBN 10: 1892746247
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 17 June 1999
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , 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. Jonathan Lear Jonathan Lear is John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at The University of Chicago. He is the author of Aristotle: The Desire to Understand and Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life.

Reviews for The Fifty-Minute Hour

This is a volume of five analytic interviews told in great detail, loosely fictionalized and avoiding scientific jargon. They are for the most part harrowing and unpleasant- save for the last one in which the doctor becomes involved in the patient's fantasy of travel to an interstellar planet. This tale is modest and engaging and permits the impression that Dr. Lindner is not entirely the victim of his belief in the analytic technique. Others deal with Charles, a psychopath who attempts to murder the doctor and is remanded to a prison hospital; Anton, a fascist and anti-semite who finally is called to war and is killed; Laura who eats obsessively to hide her desire to have a child by her father... Certainly not for psychiatrists or therapists, this is a deliberate popularization of analytic material which will hold a curiosity value for the lay investigator with an appetite for the abnormal. A preface by Max Lerner adds tone. (Kirkus Reviews)