The Criminal Personality: The Change Process

by Samuel Yochelson, Stanton Samenow

Overview

This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind. This book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to completely change the criminals way of thinking. The authors reject traditional treatment approaches as reinforcing of the criminals sense of being a victim of society. Rather Yochelson and Samenow stress that the criminal must make a choice to give up criminal thinking and learn morality. A Jason Aronson Book

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780876687710
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	07/07/1977
Edition description:	Volume II
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Samuel Yochelson, Ph.D., M.D., was until his death in 1976, director of the Program for the Investigation of Criminal Behavior at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. and research professor of clinical psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in Alexandria, Virginia. He is also the co-author of The Criminal Personality, Volume II: The Change Process, and The Criminal Personality: Volume I, A Profile for Change.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A New Horizon for Total Change of the Criminal Chapter 2 A History of Criminal Rehabilitation Chapter 3 First Contacts with the Criminal Chapter 4 Choice and Will Chapter 5 The Phenomenologic Approach in a Program for Basic Change of the Criminal Chapter 6 The Group Format Chapter 7 Correctives for Automatic Errors of Thinking Chapter 8 Correction of Other Thinking Errors Chapter 9 The Process of Deterrence Chapter 10 Experiences During the Change Process Chapter 11 Criminal Patterns in Confinement Chapter 12 The Personality of the Agent of Change Chapter 13 A Recommendation for a Rehabilitation Program

What People are Saying About This

Jud Watkins

Drs. Yochelson and Samenow's work constitutes an unprecedented scrutiny of criminal behavior, going beyond mere microscopic analysis. Volume II makes good the promise expressed in Volume I: that the fruition of fifteen years of research would be no less than an entirely new approach to understanding and modifying the criminal's thought patterns.

W. Edward Naugler

Yochelson and Samenow have definitely profiled the characteristics of the errors of criminal thinking, together with their derivatives–feeling and behavior. They show persuasively that because of ingrained and pervasive errors of thinking, criminals live and act in a world with entirely different assumptive bases than those of noncriminals. The authors then proceed to develop a treatment program using a phenomenological approach. This exhaustive and painstaking study marks a turning point in the history of efforts to rehabilitate criminals.

Editorial Reviews

Yochelson and Samenow have definitely profiled the characteristics of the errors of criminal thinking, together with their derivatives–feeling and behavior. They show persuasively that because of ingrained and pervasive errors of thinking, criminals live and act in a world with entirely different assumptive bases than those of noncriminals. The authors then proceed to develop a treatment program using a phenomenological approach. This exhaustive and painstaking study marks a turning point in the history of efforts to rehabilitate criminals.

W. Edward Naugler M.D.

Drs. Yochelson and Samenow's work constitutes an unprecedented scrutiny of criminal behavior, going beyond mere microscopic analysis. Volume II makes good the promise expressed in Volume I: that the fruition of fifteen years of research would be no less than an entirely new approach to understanding and modifying the criminal's thought patterns.

Jud Watkins

Yochelson and Samenow have definitely profiled the characteristics of the errors of criminal thinking, together with their derivatives–feeling and behavior. They show persuasively that because of ingrained and pervasive errors of thinking, criminals live and act in a world with entirely different assumptive bases than those of noncriminals. The authors then proceed to develop a treatment program using a phenomenological approach. This exhaustive and painstaking study marks a turning point in the history of efforts to rehabilitate criminals.

W. Edward Naugler