Murder and Assassination
New York: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. 406 pages. Bibliography. Author index. Subject Index. About the Authors. Pieces missing to DJ, with other wear, tears, and soiling. Some wear to spine where DJ is gone. Black mark and other soiling to bottom edge. This work presents some case histories of Murderers, general and sociological theories of murder, psychoanalytic theories of murder, psychological theories of murder, biological and physical theories of murder, emotional disturbance of murder, psychological factors in assassination, emotional disturbance of assassins, and information on patient interviews and the treatment of murderers and assassins. Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 ? July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded, and was the President of, the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute. He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent and developer of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Based on a 1982 professional survey of US and Canadian psychologists, he was considered the second most influential psychotherapist in history (Carl Rogers ranked first in the survey; Sigmund Freud was ranked third). Psychology Today noted that, "No individual?not even Freud himself?has had a greater impact on modern psychotherapy." Dr. Albert Ellis and John Gullo examine the case histories of notorious murderers through the ages--ranging from Nero and Jack the Ripper to Bonnie and Clyde, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Nathan Leopold, Richard Leob, and Charles Manson. Ellis and Gullo explore and evaluate the theories of murder advanced by dozens of experts, including the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Alfred Adler, the general and sociological theories of Frederic Wertham, Karl Menninger, Edwin Sutherland, and the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. They also examine the psychological theories of Manfred Guttmacher, H. J. Eysenck and H. Cleckley and the biological and physical theories of Ernest Hooten, Ashley Montagu, and George Bach. They point out surprising similarities in the case histories of assassins--with detailed analyses of the murderers of President Abraham Lincoln, Leon Trotsky, President James A. Garfield, President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and other public figures. Condition: Good / poor.
Keywords: John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, James Earl Ray, Homicide, Sirhan Sirhan, Charles Manson, Murders, Assassinations, Freud, Psychoanalysis, Behavioral Analysis
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