Bruno Bettelheim
Bruno Bettelheim · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Child psychologist known for work on autism and emotional development
1903, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1990, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Austria · United States
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Bettelheim was a child psychologist known for his work on autism and emotional development and for directing the Orthogenic School in Chicago for disturbed children. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna, he survived imprisonment in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps before emigrating to the United States. Although some of his theories were later disputed, his writing on childhood and on fairy tales was widely read.
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Child psychologist known for work on autism and emotional development
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