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.CHARLES MANSON'S GIRLS presents the traumatizing, astonishing admissions and scandalous interview comments of the psychopathic-serial killer, Charles Manson, with a focus on revealing Charles Manson's girls. Extensive photos. 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. Charles Manson, an alarming, terrifying paradox, was one of the most dangerous serial killers in the American history of crime. Dr. Dawson brings a forensic-clinical psychologist's perspective to the Manson interviews, which he completed in 1988 and is now available for the first time after 30 years. Dr. Dawson conducted a series of interviews with Charles Manson, poster boy for killer-cult leaders, in September 1988 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California. Dr. Dawson provides a unique, 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. Dr. Dawson reveals Manson's darkest secrets, elicits Manson Family confessions, confronts, and provokes the murderer by probing his mind and challenging Manson's spooky justifications. Manson, an enigma, finally answers questions about his cryptic crimes suppressed for many years. Psychological concepts illuminate persuasive, lucid light on Manson's ghastly crimes of assault, torture, and mass murder.Dr. Dawson earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty in New Y