CHARLES MANSON'S GIRLS: BASED ON MY CHARLES MANSON PRISON INTERVIEWS & PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT by Dr. Paul Dawson

5.0 out of 5 stars Unrecognized Genius
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2023
I would like to point out that Dr Dawson has not only blessed generations of criminologists with his insights into the psyche of Theodore Bundy, but has also cracked the JFK assassination, cleared up the death of Marilyn Monroe, interviewed Charlie Manson, and cured drug and alcohol addiction. All must salute this man, a true national treasure.

CHARLES MANSON'S GIRLS: BASED ON MY CHARLES MANSON PRISON INTERVIEWS & PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT by Dr. Paul Dawson reveals the forming of the Manson Family, which was 5:1 girls-to-guys. A particular emphasis is on the development and life passages of the young women in the Manson Family. Many of the girls Manson recruited for his hippie-murder cult seemed to be wild-and-crazy teenagers, hippie girls stoned on drugs, with parental issues, and identity-crisis turmoil, which Manson exploited. Yet the Manson Family kids were often educated and from middle-class homes. This book follows their lives from the late-1960s until now. Some continued a criminal pattern, and others went straight in later life.

Dr. Dawson conducted a series of interviews with Charles Manson, poster boy for killer-cult leaders, in 1988 while he was incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California. Dr. Dawson provides a very rare, sensational and spellbinding investigation and assessment inside the treacherous, enigmatic mind of this infamous icon of criminal evil. Manson's depraved aura, the repulsion of this homicidal-cult guru, and his murdering, cult-kingpin rampage is investigated in depth. He was the wild-eyed, scraggly-haired Dark Prince of the 1960s. Manson was the demon-hippie, psycho-serial-killer-by-proxy of the Woodstock era who sent his "Manson Family" of fanatical, cult-crazed robots out to commit multiple homicides in the mansions of Los Angeles.

Dr. Dawson earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty in New York City. He has been a psychologist in clinics, schools, mental hospitals; he was a chief psychologist of a state prison system; he has been in private practice & consulting in New York. Dr. Dawson has written over 60 books.