Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465006353 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 606 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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The first biography of one of the most glorified and villified figures of our time: Bruno Bettelheim, the brilliant discoverer of a unique method of treating disturbed children. Admirable on all points.--Roland Jaccard, Le Monde.
A Customer said Avoiding the issues. A fascinating opportunity wasted. Sutton accepts Bettelheim'sown picture of himself entirely at face value, and the book quicklyturns into a lengthy exercise in avoiding the issues. She notes first-hand reports of brutality towards the children in his care only to follow them with psychoanalytic explanations of why it was really for the child's own good that Bettelheim hit them - indeed, Sutton manages at one point to give the impression that hitting. A Customer said Detailed,opinionated 1st Bio on enigmatic Bruno Bettelheim. Nina Sutton's prolix account of the life and works of the late, legendary psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim is a richly written, highly psychoanyltical portrait of one of the major figures in Freudian psychothjerapy. Sutton's investigative work into the early years of Bettelheim's life, played against the pastice of fin de siecle Vienna, offer the reader and student of the Freud-era psychofigures a rich and detailed portrayal. Moreover, the psychologica. A Customer said Review quotes & other comments, submitted by the translator. I consider this a truly excellent book, written and researched with great honesty - but as I am its translator, I cannot be considered a disinterested party, or even less an average reader! For that reason, I prefer to simply quote from some of the very many favourable comments that the book has attracted: "A well-written, magnificent, and fascinating book about a fascinating personality." Elie Wiesel, Boston, March 1996 "Not long after she started t
Beginning her biography with an account of that scandal, Sutton proceeds to analyze the legacy of the man's work, relating it to his difficult life, and goes some way toward reclaiming Bettelheim's damaged reputation. . Nina Sutton, an admirer of his work, found herself stunned by the "Bettelheim Affair"--the scandal that erupted after he killed himself in 1990, at the age of 86, when his reputation as a benevolent sage was besmirched by former patients who claimed that he had sadistically beaten them. Bruno Bettelheim was a legendary psychotherapist; a revered author of influential clinical studies on the lives of autistic children as well as popular Freudian interpretations of myth and fairy tale; and founder of the Or