Bruno Bettelheim
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1903
- Died
- 1990
- Works
- 72
Top works
- The children of the dream: communal child-rearing and its implications for society
- L'amour ne suffit pas
- La Fortaleza vacia/ The Empty Fortress
- Truants from life
- Dialogues avec les mères
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Film & TV
Acting · Vienna, Austria
Known for
- The Exiles — Self1989
- Zeugen des Jahrhunderts — Self1979
- The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest1968
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 50
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reassembling the Social
· 2005 · cited 15,121x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,737x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,734x
- World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated
· 2006 · cited 9,721x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1903-08-28 ) August 28, 1903, Vienna , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- March 13, 1990 (1990-03-13) (aged 86), Silver Spring, Maryland , United States
- Alma mater
- University of Vienna
- Known for
- Autism research ( refrigerator mother theory ), The Uses of Enchantment
- Spouse s
- Gina Alstadt (1930–?; divorced), Gertrude Weinfeld (1941–1984; 3 children)
- Fields
- Child psychology
- Institutions
- University of Chicago , Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School , Stanford University
- Doctoral students
- Benjamin Drake Wright
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Key dates
- Born
- 28 August 1903
- Died
- 13 March 1990
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bruno
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cisleithania
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Silver Spring
- Occupation
- psychoanalyst
- Educated at
- University of Vienna
- Employer
- University of Chicago
- Political party
- Social Democratic Party of Austria
Article
Bruno Bettelheim ( German: [ˈbɛtl̩haɪm]; August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was an Austrian-born American psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An early writer on autism, Bettelheim's work focused on the education of emotionally disturbed children, as well as Freudian psychology more generally. In the U.S., he later gained a position as professor at the University of Chicago and director of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children, and after 1973 taught at Stanford University.
Bettelheim's ideas, which grew out of those of Sigmund Freud, theorized that children with behavioral and emotional disorders were not born that way, and could be treated through extended psychoanalytic therapy, treatment that rejected the use of psychotropic drugs and shock therapy. During the 1960s and 1970s he had an international reputation in such fields as autism, child psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.
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