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 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.

Author: Robert Lindner
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 07/15/2003
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781590510247
ISBN10: 1590510240
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | General
- Social Science | Criminology

About the Author
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.