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The fifty-minute hour;: A collection of true psychoanalytic tales, (Bantam matrix editions)

10 reviews
Robert Mitchell Lindner

Bantam Books, 1969

Classic account
This book was the culmination of the phenomenon of the "writing psychotherapist," when Freudian psychoanalysis was still at the height of its popularity and psychoanalysts were regarded as intrepid explorers of inner space with prestige virtually on a par with rocket scientists and physicists. Many of the analyst-writers who were popular during this period have long since been forgotten, such as ...

Rebel without a cause: The hypnoanalysis of a criminal psychopath

1 review
Robert Mitchell Lindner

Research Books, Ltd, 1945

A Timeless Masterpiece
I enjoyed this film immensely and the acting performances were rare and overwhelming. Such talent, is hard to find these days.

The Fifty-Minute Hour

1 review
Robert Mitchell Lindner

Bantam Books, 1976

Brilliant, provocative, quizzical....
I read it when it first came out. "The Jet-propelled Couch" is one of the most brilliant pieces of analysis-cum-imagination I have ever seen and perfectly fits this time. It gets more relevant as the years go by.

Rebel without a cause;: The story of a criminal psychopath (A black cat book)
Robert Mitchell Lindner

Grove Press, 1962

This volume follows the successful analysis and hypnosis of a criminal psychopath, Harold. In full transcriptions of their 46 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 behaviour, Lindner portrays a man cut off from himself and unable to attach to others. Following the threads uncovered in the sessions, ...