Science & Medicine
It is temptingly facile to try to make a seamless whole of a man’s work, his private life and his death.
April 3, 1990
Books
The legendary child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, who before his suicide last year at age 86 had written some of the world’s most influential books on children’s development, plagiarized ideas and words in his award-winning book on fairy tales, according to a leading UC Berkeley scholar.
Feb. 7, 1991
Arrayed in my study is a shelf of books, written at mid-century, by the distinguished Austrian American psychologist and educator Bruno Bettelheim.
Jan. 19, 1997
Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim persuasively argues that “raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.”
May 24, 1987
World & Nation
Bruno Bettelheim, whose involvement with human emotion ranged from severely disturbed children at his famous school in Chicago to his fellow inmates at two Nazi concentration camps, died Tuesday.
March 14, 1990
Freud’s Vienna and Other Essays, by Bruno Bettelheim (Alfred A. Knopf: $22.95, 271 pp.)
Jan. 24, 1990
RISING TO THE LIGHT: A Portrait of Bruno Bettelheim, By Theron Raines, Alfred A. Knopf: 520 pp., $35
Sept. 15, 2002
After 50 years of study on children’s behavior, psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim’s last words of advice to parents were heartening: Relax and have confidence.
March 16, 1990
I have to take issue with the story “Kids’ Stories, Grown-Up Business” (by Rachel Abramowitz, Aug. 4) referencing the much discredited Bruno Bettelheim.
Aug. 11, 2002
Technology and the Internet
The church was filled with 800 serious-looking parents and teachers who had come to learn more about one of the eternal mysteries of life: rearing children.
Oct. 12, 1986