PSYCHOLOGIST

Bruno Bettelheim

1903 - 1990

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Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was an Austrian-born psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An early writer on autism, Bettelheim's work focused on the education of emotionally disturbed children, as well as Freudian psychology more generally. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno Bettelheim has received more than 704,603 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Bruno Bettelheim is the 50th most popular psychologist (up from 67th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Austria (up from 215th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

Bruno Bettelheim was a German-born American psychoanalyst and writer who was most famous for his work with children who had been traumatized by the Holocaust.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 50 out of 235. Before him are Alfred Kinsey, Max Wertheimer, Sándor Ferenczi, Raymond Cattell, Princess Marie Bonaparte, and Sabina Spielrein. After him are Albert Ellis, Kurt Koffka, Martin Seligman, Aaron T. Beck, Alexander Luria, and Fritz Perls.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 38. Before him are George Beadle, John Dillinger, Irène Némirovsky, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Matthias Sindelar, and Haldan Keffer Hartline. After him are Julius Fučík, Lars Onsager, Georg Elser, Alec Douglas-Home, Empress Kōjun, and Bing Crosby. Among people deceased in 1990, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 22. Before him are Pavel Cherenkov, Yun Posun, Miguel Muñoz, John Bowlby, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and Lawrence Durrell. After him are Ilya Frank, Robert Hofstadter, Sandro Pertini, Jacques Demy, Keith Haring, and Boris Shcherbina.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 169 out of 1,424. Before him are Albert III, Duke of Austria (1349), Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este (1754), Róbert Bárány (1876), Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771), Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (1558), and Fritz Kreisler (1875). After him are Lothar Rendulic (1887), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Hermann Oberth (1894), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1718), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), and Alfred Schütz (1899).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 5. Before him are Alfred Adler (1870), Viktor Frankl (1905), Anna Freud (1895), and Melanie Klein (1882). After him are Otto Rank (1884), Paul Watzlawick (1921), Otto Gross (1877), René Spitz (1887), Heinz Kohut (1913), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), and Walter Mischel (1930).

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