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Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy

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Who was Bruno Bettelheim? The brilliant discoverer of a unique method of treating psychotic children, justly acclaimed the world over? Or the brutal and despotic bully who was denounced after his death by former students and patients? In her quest to understand this puzzling and powerful man, Nina Sutton spent five years tracing Bettelheims footsteps from Vienna to Los Angeles, via Chicago, Basel, and Jerusalem. She interviewed students and colleagues, friends and enemies, and uncovered rare documents, including Bettelheims letters from Buchenwald and Dachau.Most significantly, he was a therapist driven by an almost magical idea: that from an absolute evil, Nazism, could be drawn the salvation of deeply disturbed children. Sutton shows how Bettelheim discovered his life force in the concentration camp and then tried to use his own aggression as a lightning rod for the self-destructive anger and violence seething within the children in his care. Probing deep into his past and into the scandal that broke out after his suicide, she reveals how care and brutality, commitment to truth, and a passion for fairy tales, could coexist in this exceptional man. Who was Bruno Bettelheim? The brilliant discoverer of a unique method of treating psychotic children, justly acclaimed the world over? Or the brutal and despotic bully who was denounced after his death by former students and patients? In her quest to understand this puzzling and powerful man, Nina Sutton spent five years tracing Bettelheims footsteps from Vienna to Los Angeles, via Chicago, Basel, and Jerusalem. She interviewed students and colleagues, friends and enemies, and uncovered rare documents, including Bettelheims letters from Buchenwald and Dachau.Most significantly, he was a therapist driven by an almost magical idea: that from an absolute evil, Nazism, could be drawn the salvation of deeply disturbed children. Sutton shows how Bettelheim discovered his life force in the concentration camp and then tried to use his own aggression as a lightning rod for the self-destructive anger and violence seething within the children in his care. Probing deep into his past and into the scandal that broke out after his suicide, she reveals how care and brutality, commitment to truth, and a passion for fairy tales, could coexist in this exceptional man.

Table of Contents:
Prologue: The Bettelheim Affair * The Formative Years Vienna: Once Upon a Time One Big Family Gina Patsy The Anschluss Dachau: The Making of a Survivor Buchenwald: The Price of Freedom A Short-Lived Reunion * Dr. B. From Chicago to Rockford, and Back A New Man for the New World Orthogenic School: The Magical Years Dr. B the Enchanter The Ultimate Limit The Big Bad Wolf Israel: Understanding Is Not Enough The Bad Guy Epilogue: Trude and the Children


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780813390994
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Westview Press Inc
  • Height: 236 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0813390990
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jul 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Life and a Legacy


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