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Bettelheim

American  
[bet-l-hahym] / ˈbɛt lˌhaɪm /

noun

  1. Bruno, 1903–90, U.S. psychologist, educator, and writer, born in Austria.


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Then, Axios’ Senior Health Care Editor Adriel Bettelheim joins to explain what peptides are and how RFK Jr. is trying to throw the doors open for the undertested wellness trend.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2026

He’s been Will Bettelheim, a worker at a trendy Los Angeles health food market.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D., is a life coach and a child, marriage, and family psychotherapist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and other publications.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2024

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

We had with us among our intelligence officers a Captain Bettelheim, born in Constantinople of Belgian parentage.

From War in the Garden of Eden by Roosevelt, Kermit

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