By Paul R. Linde. 297 pp. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2001. $24.95. ISBN 0-07-136734-9.
First published in the mid-1950s, Robert Lindner's The 50 MinuteHour was a series of lengthy clinical vignettes of romanticizedand idealized psychoanalytic psychotherapies. Widely read bypsychiatric residents (and others) at the time, it helped usto understand the failures as well as the successes of talkingtreatments in the era before antipsychotics, antidepressants,and mood stabilizers. It presented us with the therapist asan adventurer in an unknown world but left us feeling that theworld of the unconscious and of "crazy" behavior was understandable.Although we realized that this was not easy to accomplish, thatit did . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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