Bettelheim: A Life And A Legacy - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0465006353 ISBN 13 : 9780465006359

Editeur : Basic Books, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Sutton Nina

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0465006353
• ISBN 13: 9780465006359
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 16
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible