Bruno Bettelheim

Bruno Bettelheim

Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was an Austrian-born psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and author 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. In the U.S., he later gained a position as professor at the University of Chicago and director of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children, and after 1973 taught at Stanford University.Bettelheim's ideas, which grew out of those of Sigmund Freud, theorized that children with behavioral and emotional disorders were not born that way, and could be treated through extended psychoanalytic therapy, treatment that rejected the use of psychotropic drugs and shock therapy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno Bettelheim has received more than 470,765 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Bruno Bettelheim is the 65th most popular psychologist (down from 56th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Austria (down from 176th in 2019) and the 6th 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.