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Biography

Name: Bruno Bettelheim
Birth Date: August 28, 1903
Death Date: 1990
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: psychoanalyst, educational psychologist

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Biography of Bruno Bettelheim
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Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990), a controversial Austrian-born American psychoanalyst and educational psychologist, pioneered in the application of psychoanalysis to the treatment of emotionally-disturbed children. On Aug. 28, 1903, Bruno Bettelheim was...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Bettelheim, Bruno (1903-1990) Summary
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Bettelheim, Bruno (1903-1990) Psychologist known for his treatment of emotionally disturbed children, particularly autistic children. Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He was trained as a psychoanalyst, receiving his Ph.D. from the...
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Bruno Bettelheim Information
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Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was an Austrian-born American writer and child psychologist. He is widely known for his studies of autism. The refrigerator mother theory of autism, to which Bettelheim subscribed, enjoyed...


News and Journals
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Publishers Weekly
The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim. (book reviews)
11/18/1996: 372 words, approx. 1 pages
Richard Pollak. Simon & Schuster, $30 (480p) ISBN 0-684-80938-9 In this shocking, demythologizing biography, Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990), world-famous Vienna-born psychoanalyst, bestselling author and authority on troubled children, is portrayed as a dogmatic, arrogant, exploitative tyrant who manipulated and abused patients, a compulsive...
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The Boston Globe
Bruno Bettelheim, Freudian Analyst Known For Work With Children; At 86
03/14/1990: 527 words, approx. 2 pages
CHICAGO - Bruno Bettelheim, a psychologist and prolific author who studied under Sigmund Freud and gained fame for his work with emotionally disturbed children, killed himself yesterday in a Maryland nursing home, a medical examiner said. He was 86. Maryland's chief medical examiner,...
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The New York Observer
Mamet Plays Moses Again, Laying Down Hollywood Law
2/4/2007: 918 words, approx. 3 pages
Let’s be blunt, as befits our author. David Mamet has directed more than a dozen movies, none of which suggest he has much of an affinity for the job. Things Change (1988), Homicide (1991), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), State and Main (2000) and the rest...
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The New York Observer
Uses of Disenchantment: TV Anchor-Mom Fights Autism and Films It
6/4/2006: 1,634 words, approx. 5 pages
I want to talk about something barbaric and something beautiful and heroic. Also about a buried Freudian scandal involving Bruno Bettelheim and refrigerators. Let me explain. It was prompted by the ordeal my longtime friends Lauren Thierry and Jim Watkins and their son Liam have...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Christian Fleck and Albert Müller
22,212 words, approx. 74 pages
In the following essay, Fleck and Müller explore the central tenets of Bettelheim's analysis of the Nazi concentration camps and contrasts his theory with the interpretations of other authors who have written on the same subject.
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Critical Essay by Paul Marcus
10,745 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Marcus delineates Bettelheim's theory of mass society and compares it to those of contemporary social theorists.
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Critical Essay by Paul Roazen
10,426 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Roazen investigates the reasons for the decline of Bettelheim's reputation.
 


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