The Criminal Personality: The Change Process (Volume II) [Paperback]

Samuel Yochelson (Author), Stanton Samenow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1995

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.

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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 )

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (April 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568213492
• ISBN-13: 978-1568213491
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #906,885 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is the most powerful in the series., November 4, 2000

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Dolores Vinson (Philadelphia PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Criminal Personality: The Change Process (Volume II) (Paperback)

I have used telling the criminal who he is and how he thinks often in my work. This alone gets their attention. To be so accurate about their thinking and reasoning has won hands down their interest and willingness to participate in the change process. They can't imagine you know already what really happens in their day to day thinking. To me this is the reference work I go back to time and again especially with difficult clients that have failed all other attempts at change. This book gave me the tools to work with the most hardened cases. If you don't understand the change process how can you guide them through it. Its most useful feature is the cases that are presented and the methods used to create change in thinking and action. If I had to choose which to buy it would be this one as it has taught me not only about the criminal mind but how it can be changed.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INSIDE THE CRIMINAL MIND BY STANTON E. SAMENOW, September 7, 2000

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Joanne C. Tashjian (Pleasant Valley, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Criminal Personality: The Change Process (Volume II) (Paperback)

This is a great book! The author breaks the criminal down into parts such as what a criminal thinks about people, in general, what needs to take place within the criminal in order to change, and how they view the world. I was somewhat surprised the author views criminal behavor as a choice, not due to poverty, a fatherless home, or any of the usual reasons cited for a child becoming a criminal later in life. The author is a psychologist, but communicates logical concepts in language that is easy to understand by the layperson.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A thick book, September 20, 2007

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This review is from: The Criminal Personality: The Change Process (Volume II) (Paperback)

I appreciate the detailed information in this book. I believe it is a good reference book for prison treatment staff. However, It is based on its own treatment program, and during the narration of its program, the information tend to repeats itself and becomes tedious. In all, I think it is informative.