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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

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

Hinton’s story has the same dark enchantment that the writer Bruno Bettelheim identified in fairy tales.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2023

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

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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