Samuel Yochelson, Stanton Samenow

The Criminal Personality (eBook, PDF)

The Drug User, Volume III

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess. Originally set in writing by Yochelson before his death in 1976, the materials were edited and updated by Samenow for publication. Systematic, probing and repeated interviews were used as the vehicle for gathering information on common mental themes among men apprehended and sentenced for criminal acts.... Yochelson and Samenow attribute crime to a series of early irresponsible choices that predate drug use among drug-using criminals. Personality and personal choice variables are conceptualized as critical in initialing and maintaining use. In what is called an indiscriminate search for excitement, drug-using criminals are characterized as expanding their criminal repertoire while excusing their actions by rationalizations sometimes invented by sociologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists. Although these ideas are of considerable interest, the real value of the text lies in its intriguing presentation of drug-user thinking. Specifically, three chapters are well worth reading. The description of mental activities associated with such constructs as 'the high,' 'the nod,' and 'the rush' are probably on target for many drug users, whether criminal or not. The chapter explaining drugs as facilitators offers several notions worthy of systematic inquiry, as does the one devoted to principles for encouragement of behavior change. Of perhaps greatest benefit to most readers are caveats regarding management of drug users in what may be seen as a cognitive-behavioral framework. Yochelson and Samenow contend that drug-using criminal men represent the architects of their criminal life-styles and that it is they themselves who can correct irresponsible thoughts and behaviors through application of logic over emotion.' DContemporary Psychology A Jason Aroson Book

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216245605
• Artikelnr.: 75141755

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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