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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 673,154 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Bruno Bettelheim is the 67th most popular psychologist (down from 65th in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from Austria (down from 191st 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 67 out of 183. Before him are Edward C. Tolman, Pierre Janet, Margaret Mahler, Timothy Leary, Ernst Kretschmer, and Frederick Herzberg. After him are Edward B. Titchener, Stanislav Grof, G. Stanley Hall, David Wechsler, Kurt Koffka, and Mary Ainsworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 50. Before him are Empress Kōjun, Andrei Grechko, Jiro Horikoshi, Claudio Arrau, Tamam Shud case, and John Eccles. After him are John Vincent Atanasoff, Claudette Colbert, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Davis Snell, Irving Stone, and Prince Charles, Count of Flanders. Among people deceased in 1990, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 29. Before him are Boris Shcherbina, Lawrence Durrell, Ilya Frank, Barbara Stanwyck, Sandro Pertini, and Jacques Demy. After him are Sergio Corbucci, Luigi Nono, Bruno Kreisky, Capucine, Edward A. Murphy Jr., and Robert Noyce.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 215 out of 1,237. Before him are Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1211), Ferdinand Piëch (1937), Josef von Sternberg (1894), Leopold I, Duke of Austria (1290), Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (1589), and Anton Diabelli (1781). After him are Božena Němcová (1820), Otto of Freising (1114), Jörg Haider (1950), Oskar Potiorek (1853), Albert IV, Duke of Austria (1377), and Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871).

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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), Melanie Klein (1882), and Anna Freud (1895). After him are Otto Rank (1884), Paul Watzlawick (1921), René Spitz (1887), Otto Gross (1877), Heinz Kohut (1913), Walter Mischel (1930), and Fritz Heider (1896).

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