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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

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

Sontag concluded that the truest way to portray illness was without metaphor, and it might seem that Bettelheim was writing in the metaphor-free space of observational science.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2019

At the same time I sang on Saturdays at the Synagogue in Mission street, Rabbi Bettelheim, with the members of Calvary choir, excepting the soprano.

From Sixty Years of California Song by Alverson, Margaret Blake

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