Bruno Bettelheim came to New York City in May 1939 in a condition of physical and emotional devastation. An assimilated Viennese Jew, he had been captured by Nazis after the Anschluss and had spent 11 ...

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When Bruno Bettelheim committed suicide last year at age 86, obituaries hailed him as a world-renowned pioneer psychoanalyst whose soulful caring for disturbed children inspired a lifelong effort to ...

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Psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, 66, who is best known for his innovative studies of children’s emotional development, has turned his protean mind to student radicals. He sees some in his private ...

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 ...

I am a psychologist who spends his days talking to sad and confused residents at a variety of nursing homes. Early on in this line of work, it struck me that no matter how exciting or mundane your ...

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Shortly before he died, Bruno Bettelheim told a former University of Chicago colleague, “The one thing I want is to never be forgotten.” So far, his wish has been granted, though not the way the ...

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 ...