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...novel psychological theories of the great (and imaginary) psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler seem a bit further from the center of things here than they did in The Alienist. True, he affronts received opinion by postulating that a woman, because of her treatment in childhood, may be quite capable of murdering her own children and those of others. He helps trap the woman he has described. But for the trial to go forward he must declare her sane, a judgment that would have seemed as mushy at the beginning of the Freudian era as it does now. For a long stretch...
...radical, unsettling new theories about the workings of the human mind could be used by detectives to create a / psychological profile of the murderer. The man who offers this theory is an alienist (people who commit bizarre acts are said to be alienated from their right minds), Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, once a student of William James at Harvard. His belief is that childhood experiences are more important than inherited tendencies in ordering behavior, and this psychological determinism, an offense to the ideal of free will, is widely unpopular with the clergy, the mayor and other conventional thinkers. But Theodore Roosevelt...
...Kreizler, an intellectual autocrat of almost Sherlockian self-assurance, takes up the pursuit with a somewhat addlepated New York Times reporter named Moore; his pal Sara, a gun-packing early feminist with bumptious ambitions to be a police officer; and a pair of brothers named Isaacson, who are scientifically up-to-date detectives. From the dimmest of clues, this team deduces a shape in the fog: an intelligent, physically powerful, driven individual who was abused sexually as a child but raised in a strictly religious family. The hunt is on, with much clambering over rooftops, chasing about in cabs...
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