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

From Los Angeles Times

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

The message of these works, according to Bettelheim, is “that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence — but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.”

From Los Angeles Times

Bettelheim described Joey as a “human machine” who escaped into autism because his existence “never registered with his mother.”

From Washington Post

Still worse, in 1959, Bruno Bettelheim, a psychoanalyst and public intellectual of world renown, published an article in Scientific American about a 9-year-old boy named Joey.

From Washington Post