Bettelheim
Americannoun
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Hinton’s story has the same dark enchantment that the writer Bruno Bettelheim identified in fairy tales.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2023
"Without such fantasies, the child fails to get to know his monster better, nor is he given suggestions as to how he may gain mastery over it," Bettelheim wrote in the study.
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2020
Child psychologists like Bruno Bettelheim have argued that the very point of such stories is that they are dark and frightening, because by reading them children learn to cope with their fears.
From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2018
This is what the child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim advocated.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016
Yet these obstacles did not dishearten them, and they seem determined to persevere in their attempts, though it is not unlikely that when Mr. Bettelheim arrives, the authorities will take measures for deporting them all.
From The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe by Bartlett, John Russell
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