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- catalog abstract "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 Bettelheim's footsteps from Vienna to Los Angeles, via Chicago, Basel, and Jerusalem. She interviewed students and colleagues, friends and enemies, and uncovered rare documents, including Bettelheim's letters from Buchenwald and Dachau. As the internationally famous director of the Orthogenic School in Chicago and the author of a dozen bestsellers on Nazism, child rearing, emotional disturbances, and fairy tales, Bettelheim was always surrounded by controversy. He was a Jew who rejected the inevitability of the Holocaust, a psychoanalyst who challenged the very notion of "insanity," and a man who liked to shroud his life in mystery and sometimes outright lies. 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 lighting 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.".
- catalog alternative "Bruno Bettelheim, une vie. English".
- catalog contributor b10169080.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""Bruno Bettelheim's works": p. 579-591.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-577) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: The "Bettelheim affair" -- Pt.1 The formative years: -- Vienna: once upon a time -- One big family -- Gina -- Patsy -- The Auschluss -- Dachau: the making of a survivor -- Buchenwald: the price of freedom -- A short-lived reunion -- Pt.2 "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.".
- catalog description "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 Bettelheim's footsteps from Vienna to Los Angeles, via Chicago, Basel, and Jerusalem. She interviewed students and colleagues, friends and enemies, and uncovered rare documents, including Bettelheim's letters from Buchenwald and Dachau. As the internationally famous director of the Orthogenic School in Chicago and the author of a dozen bestsellers on Nazism, child rearing, emotional disturbances, and fairy tales, Bettelheim was always surrounded by controversy. He was a Jew who rejected the inevitability of the Holocaust, a psychoanalyst who challenged the very notion of "insanity," and a man who liked to shroud his life in mystery and sometimes outright lies. 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 lighting 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.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 606 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0465006353".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Basic Books,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "1996 H-007".
- catalog subject "618.92/89/0092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Autistic Disorder therapy Biography.".
- catalog subject "Autistic Disorder therapy Personal Narratives.".
- catalog subject "Autistic Disorder therapy".
- catalog subject "Bettelheim, Bruno.".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis Biography.".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis Personal Narratives.".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysts United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "RC438.6.B48 S8813 1996".
- catalog subject "WZ 100 B5645S 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: The "Bettelheim affair" -- Pt.1 The formative years: -- Vienna: once upon a time -- One big family -- Gina -- Patsy -- The Auschluss -- Dachau: the making of a survivor -- Buchenwald: the price of freedom -- A short-lived reunion -- Pt.2 "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.".
- catalog title "Bettelheim, a life and a legacy / Nina Sutton ; translated from the French by David Sharp, in collaboration with the author.".
- catalog title "Bruno Bettelheim, une vie. English".
- catalog type "Autobiography".
- catalog type "Biography".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".