The Freudian analyst Bruno Bettelheim is famous for using fairy tales to allow children to explore their feelings of fear and abandonment. A local lecture series at the Center for Psyche and the Arts ...

Famously known as “Dr. B.”, he made a cameo appearance in Woody Allen’s movie “Zelig.” His book “Dialogues With Mothers” rivaled in influence those written by the parenting guru Dr. Spock. But upon on ...

I have to take issue with the story “Kids’ Stories, Grown-Up Business” (by Rachel Abramowitz, Aug. 4) referencing the much discredited Bruno Bettelheim. To pillory Bettelheim today, one would have to ...

Celeste Fremon is the author of "Father Greg & the Homeboys: The Extraordinary Journey of Father Greg Boyle and His Work With the Latino Gangs of East L.A." When the famed psychologist and writer ...

Bruno Bettelheim lied, exaggerated, plagiarized, cheated, manipulated and harmed children to create his reputation–and it dies hard. The story of the Chicagoan, who for decades was hailed as one of ...

People could hardly believe their eyes when they visited the school for disturbed children that was run by Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, the famous child psychologist who died Tuesday at the age of 86 ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source Bruno Bettelheim came to New York City in May 1939 in a condition of physical and emotional devastation. An ...

Deficits in social skills are a key diagnostic factor in autism, but the exact opposite is seen in psychotic savants. Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) is a paradigmatic case. Although Bettelheim arrived ...

For 20 years or longer, author-illustrator Maurice Sendak has claimed that child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim mercilessly attacked his 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are when it was first published, ...

Bruno Bettelheim, the psychoanalyst whose deep empathy for children led him to a lifelong effort to heal the emotional wounds of early life, died Tuesday at a retirement home in Silver Spring, Md. He ...

To Psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, “yes” is the most important word in the English language. Yes, he says, children suffering from the most severe forms of schizophrenia can be cured. Yes, he says, ...

After finishing my paper on Frankl, Levi, and Auschwitz, I turned to frame Frankl’s decisions and choices before the war with other Austrian Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Two of the most famous ...