For a moment, a brief moment, a bright star in the universe of Forteans.
Although it is hard to say he was much more than a sidereal figure: distant from the Society, unaffected by its pull.
Robert Mitchell Lindner was born 14 May 1914 in New York City to Charles Lindner and Sadie Schwartz. Both of his parents came from immigrant families, Charles’s from Austria and Sadie’s from Hungary. The family was Jewish. Charles manufactured labels, according to the 1920 census. Robert was the eldest son, soon joined by Manuel (born 1918) and Harold (born 1923). Robert went to Bucknell, where he received a B.A. in 1935. In 1937, he married Eleanor Johnson. At the time, he was a psychology graduate student at Cornell; he received his Ph.D. in 1938. Afterwards he worked for the state of New Jersey.
Lindner became fascinated by psychoanalysis—not unusual for a Jewish child from immigrant families living in New York. back in the 1960s, sociologist Charles Kadushin showed how ideas about and interest in psychoanalysis spread through New York City social circles, and attributes of those circles included being Jewish and connected to immigrant enclaves. He was a student of Theodore Reik. He also had an interest in hypnosis, which he would use in his practice.
Although it is hard to say he was much more than a sidereal figure: distant from the Society, unaffected by its pull.
Robert Mitchell Lindner was born 14 May 1914 in New York City to Charles Lindner and Sadie Schwartz. Both of his parents came from immigrant families, Charles’s from Austria and Sadie’s from Hungary. The family was Jewish. Charles manufactured labels, according to the 1920 census. Robert was the eldest son, soon joined by Manuel (born 1918) and Harold (born 1923). Robert went to Bucknell, where he received a B.A. in 1935. In 1937, he married Eleanor Johnson. At the time, he was a psychology graduate student at Cornell; he received his Ph.D. in 1938. Afterwards he worked for the state of New Jersey.
Lindner became fascinated by psychoanalysis—not unusual for a Jewish child from immigrant families living in New York. back in the 1960s, sociologist Charles Kadushin showed how ideas about and interest in psychoanalysis spread through New York City social circles, and attributes of those circles included being Jewish and connected to immigrant enclaves. He was a student of Theodore Reik. He also had an interest in hypnosis, which he would use in his practice.