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Bettelheim

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Bet·tel·heim  (btl-hm), Bruno 1903-1990.
Austrian-born American psychologist noted for his studies of children and education. His works include Love Is Not Enough (1950) and The Uses of Enchantment (1976).


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Camp survivor Bruno Bettelheim said it was what ordinary people did to ordinary people.
Black's (2003) insights about Harry Potter as heroic icon reinforces the points of Campbell (1968) and Bettelheim (1989), that heroic ideals serve to inspire as well as challenge the basic nature of man.
She devotes considerable space to debunking long-discredited theories, employing the present tense, for example, to describe psychoanalytic treatments devised by Bruno Bettelheim in the 1960s that were exposed years ago as a cruel hoax.
 
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