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	Alienist definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Alienist: The term "alienist" was heading for obsolescence until it was returned to a position of some prominence by the 1994 book "The Alienist" by the historian/novelist Caleb Carr.
		The story of "The Alienist" starts In New York City in March 1896 when reporter John Schuyler Moore is called to the East River by his old Harvard classmate and friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist," to view the mutilated body of an adolescent boy.
		The word "alienist" came across the Channel to England from France where "aliené" meant insane and an "aliéniste" was one who cared for the mentally ill: a psychiatrist.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=6991 (260 words)

	Review: The Alienist
		It's a mystery that borders on horror, a historical fiction that is both fantasy and science fiction to it's 19th century participants, but to us the situations and methods are quite familiar - they just required a pioneering leap ahead of the bounds of Victorian thinking.
		The protagonist - the Alienist, provides that leap, piecing together a dark and unknown science of psychology that would be considered innovative but familiar to us now.
		But instead of inscrutable logic and deduction of clues and motives, the Alienist employs a rigorous and uncomfortable scientific method to understand and predict the behavior and psychology of the criminal.
	bluejay.mind.net /darkcrossings/alienist.html (283 words)

	The Arion Press Catalogue:"The Alienist" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The Alienist by Machado de Assis, with drawings by Carroll Dunham.
		Machado de Assis, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839, is considered the greatest Latin American novelist of the nineteenth century and the precursor to Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Manuel Puig in the twentieth.
		The novella, The Alienist, newly translated by Alfred Mac Adam, professor of Latin American literature at Barnard College and Columbia University and a respected translator of Latin American fiction, is a hilarious indictment of nineteenth-century science, in which an alienist—the nineteenth-century equivalent of a psychiatrist—attempts to discover a foolproof means to distinguish sanity from madness.
	www.arionpress.com /catalog/055.htm (467 words)

	Caleb Carr The Alienist Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Carr followed 'The Alienist' up with 'The Angel of Darkness', another story with the same characters and setting that to this reader was nearly as good, though not as original.
		Set in New York City in 1896, 'The Alienist' begins as Theodore Roosevelt, then Police Commissioner of New York, enlists the aid of Kreitzler and John Schuyler Moore, a crime reporter for the New York Times.
		The potential for trite walk-on history and anachronistic problem solving is enormous in 'The Alienist', but Carr's ultra-detailed and dense storytelling style overcome these traps before the reader even realizes that they could be problems.
	www.trashotron.com /agony/reviews/carr-the_alienist.htm (631 words)

	Caleb Carr The Alienist Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Carr followed 'The Alienist' up with 'The Angel of Darkness', another story with the same characters and setting that to this reader was nearly as good, though not as original.
		Set in New York City in 1896, 'The Alienist' begins as Theodore Roosevelt, then Police Commissioner of New York, enlists the aid of Kreitzler and John Schuyler Moore, a crime reporter for the New York Times.
		The potential for trite walk-on history and anachronistic problem solving is enormous in 'The Alienist', but Carr's ultra-detailed and dense storytelling style overcome these traps before the reader even realizes that they could be problems.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/carr-the_alienist.htm (631 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Alienist: Books: Caleb Carr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The Alienist, by Caleb Carr, Jul 12 2004
		The Alienist - for all intensive purposes - is about the complex process of developing that profile and this is where the strength of the book really is and is main reason why you will enjoy reading it.
		For instance, one of the detectives manages within 24 hours of examining a murder victim to find that the killer uses a huge hunting knife and procures the very same knife by conducting cutting tests with various types of knifes that he has purchased around the city.
	www.amazon.ca /Alienist-Caleb-Carr/dp/0553572997 (1701 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Caleb Carr - The Alienist at Epinions.com
		The Alienist is an exciting read full of detail, intrigue, and well fleshed characters.
		The Alienist begins in 1919 with the funeral of Theodore Roosevelt.
		There is a great hesitation by most of the NYC police department to investigate this crime, and an equal reluctance of the press to cover it.
	www.epinions.com /content_55414787716 (400 words)

	Caleb Carr Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Ordinarily such murders would be ignored, their recognition being an embarrassment to the city's elders, but, through a happy coincidence three college friends are re-united and set out to by-pass the normal channels in an attempt to solve the case.
		The strength of The Alienist is in the atmosphere of the time it evokes.
		Although sometimes there is just too much period detail The Alienist is a must for any fan of the historical detective novel and a safe bet for anybody usually hooked on twentieth century mystery alone.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /reviews/ccarr.html (491 words)

	alienist - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		alienist : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		ALIENIST : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=alienist (174 words)

	The Alienist
		For the first 200 pages or so of The Alienist, I was actually thrilled, I thought I had actually found the real thing by an American mystery writer and that I would have to revise the harsh criticism displayed in the review dedicated to The Killing Game.
		Thinking that George is British is apparently a common mistake: all of her novels take place in England and definitely have the unmistakable British touch: I read on her web site that she makes frequent trips to London and has an apartment, excuse-me!, I meant a flat, there...).
		If the character of the alienist is interesting and complex, I found that the narrator was a bad impersonation of doctor Watson.
	discussingbooks.cohprog.com /dbe/English/Alienist.htm (740 words)

	The Alienist - Caleb Carr
		And truly, The Alienist is more like a work co-authored by Carl Jung and some gritty fringe writer such as Jim Thompson than just another Dean Koontz atrocity.
		Before I read the novel, I was under the impression that it was some sort of historical crime noir album from the Thompson period of pulp (1950-70s).
		All in all The Alienist carries itself as if Carr was hoping to keep open the possibility of turning the thing into an ABC mini-series (I hear it has been optioned as a film) and never went too far off the beaten path of "safe" crime dramas.
	www.forbisthemighty.com /pages/alienist.htm (397 words)

	Powell's Books - The Alienist by Caleb Carr
		A mystery that takes place in New York City in the late 1800's; an investigation of a serial killer in the days when Jack the Ripper was the only known serial criminal and before forensics were what they are today, when skeptics laughed at the idea of fingerprinting for evidence.
		Carr explains in the introduction that the term alienist once referred to psychologists: the doctors who attend to those who have become "alienated" from themselves and from society.
		Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0553572997 (659 words)

	A.Word.A.Day--Today's Word
		A psychiatrist, especially one who has been accepted by a court to assess mental competence of those appearing in court regarding a case.
		[From French aliéniste (alienist), from Latin alienatus, past participle of alienare (to estrange), from Latin alienus (alien).
		Because an alienist treats those who are believed to be alienated from their normal state of mind.]
	www.wordsmith.org /words/alienist.html (494 words)

	Amazon.com: The Alienist: A Novel: Books: Caleb Carr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		I read The Alienist with my face-to-face bookclub this month and was immediately excited for a couple of reasons.
		Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a controversial profiler (aka alienist), John Moore, the police beat reporter for the Times, and an assorted cast of trustworthy detectives and friends to take the case.
		The ALIENIST begins with Theodore Roosevelt's funeral, a reason for the novel's narrator, John Schuyler Moore, a New York Times crime reporter, to flash back to 1896, when Roosevelt had just been appointed police commissioner.
	www.amazon.com /Alienist-Novel-Caleb-Carr/dp/0812976142 (1629 words)

	Carr, The Alienist and Cercone, Blood Tracks
		Carr's novel was a best-seller, and enthusiastically received; Cercone's is a largely unknown child of the mid-list.
		Carr has a promising premise --- the murders take place in New York City in 1896, and are to be solved by some former students of William James --- the journalist narrator, the alienist (read: shrink) of the title, and Teddy Roosevelt, the reformist police commissioner --- and proceeds to systematically ruin it.
		First of all, it's a serial killer story, and this reduces the plot to (as James would've put it) a mere concatenation of reflex discharges.
	www.cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/reviews/carr-vs-cercone (1093 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Alienist: Books: Caleb Carr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		In the USA at the end of the last century, an "alienist" was one who studied and treated the "alienated", or mentally sick.
		The story is told in the first person by a journalist friend of Laszlo Kreizler, the alienist of the title, and it's a gripping read.
		The Alienist was recommended by a friend who thought it might be right up my street.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Alienist-Caleb-Carr/dp/0613072197 (1528 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Alienist, by Caleb Carr, Paperback, Reprint
		Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its tarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills.
		A society-born police reporter and an enigmatic abnormal psychologist--the ``alienist'' of the title--are recruited in 1896 by New York's reform police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt to track down a serial killer who is slaughtering boy prostitutes.
		The Alienist is an amazing read with just the right mix of murder and suspense.The book has an exciting and amusing plot and the characters are very believable.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&endeca=1&isbn=0812976142 (688 words)

	The Alienist & The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr \| 17thstreet.net
		The Alienist is a psychological thriller which revolves around one of the earliest forensic teams put together in the late 19th century.
		In addition to finding out how a psychological profile is built of a criminal, within the pages of this book you also get to fall in love with the timeless characters it describes.
		But, little do they know that it won't be long until they are to be presented with their next group investigation...
	17thstreet.net /books/alienist.php (3634 words)

	The Alienist by Caleb Carr : Booksamillion.com (0553572997, Paperback)
		The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld.
		Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes.
		Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?id=3187177802966&isbn=0553572997 (296 words)

	BookPage Interview
		Carr clearly did his job with his next book, "The Alienist." The tale of an emotionally and physically scarred serial killer stalking boy prostitutes in 1896 New York City, "The Alienist" and its truths struck a resonant, emotional chord with readers, who kept it on the bestseller lists for months.
		Chief among the novel's truths is that the cruelties visited on children reverberate for years, especially when those cruelties are inflicted on children by those who should love them best: their parents.
		We are sitting on his aunt's and uncle's small, shaded terrace overlooking a public housing complex for the elderly and its adjoining park.
	www.bookpage.com /9710bp/firstperson1.html (1123 words)

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		The Alienist is a novel from 1994 (ISBN 0-553-57299-7), written by Caleb Carr.
		Alienist definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular...
		Alienist: The term "alienist" was heading for obsolescence until it was returned
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	The Humblest Blog on the Net » Blog Archive » The Alienist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The Alienist is a credible mystery, and chocked full of little bits of true history.
		The Alienist, or a person who studies mental illness, is Laszlo Kreizler, an outcast in his profession and a good friend of Theodore Roosevelt from his Harvard days.
		Laszlo and a group of amateur investigators are called upon to search out a new killer that is roaming the streets of New York City in 1896.
	www.thehumblest.net /?p=121 (616 words)

	Literal Mind. The Alienist, Caleb Carr
		Caleb Carr's "The Alienist," deals with one of the first serial murder cases to warrant a modern investigation.
		Half fiction and half history, "The Alienist" works almost better as a work of social history than a novel.
		Although Carr might have gotten carried away with his attributes, "The Alienist" is finely crafted, and words generally serve him well.
	newsjobs.net /literalmind/content/review4.asp?book=3 (242 words)

	Salon \| Books: The Salon Interview, Caleb Carr
		was a pretty angry kid," says Caleb Carr, the bestselling author of "The Alienist." It's a steamy afternoon in late August, and we're sitting in Carr's tiny apartment, a fourth-floor walk-up in New York's East Village.
		His two novels -- "The Alienist" (1994) and now its sequel, "The Angel of Darkness" -- are steeped in New York history.
		In "The Angel of Darkness" he brings back the cast of "The Alienist," including the eminent psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, to solve a new case, one that involves a woman who may or may not be murdering her children.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1997/10/cov_si_04carr.html (792 words)

	The alienist by Caleb Carr \| LibraryThing
		The Alienist: A Novel by Caleb Carr (495 copies separate)
		Alienist, The by Caleb Carr (10 copies separate)
		Alienist 'c' Export by Caleb Carr (1 copy separate)
	www.librarything.com /work-info/2889 (219 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Alienist by Caleb Carr
		On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
		Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology--amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes.
		Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook41423.htm (350 words)

	eBooks - The Alienist by Caleb Carr - eReader.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology—amassing a psychological profile of the man they’re looking for based on the details of his crimes.
		Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before—and will kill again before the hunt is over.
		Fast–paced and gripping, infused with a historian’s exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its tarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills.
	www.ereader.com /product/detail/23265?book=The_Alienist (313 words)

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