But upon on his death in 1990, it became apparent that Bettelheim had pulled off a monumental scientific fraud. He wasn’t who he claimed to be. He hadn’t rescued children from autism’s grip ...

I have to take issue with the story “Kids’ Stories, Grown-Up Business” (by Rachel Abramowitz, Aug. 4) referencing the much discredited Bruno Bettelheim. To pillory Bettelheim today ...

Bruno Bettelheim, the former University of Chicago psychoanalyst who was criticized posthumously for his harsh treatment of emotionally disturbed children, has now been accused of plagiarism.

For 20 years or longer, author-illustrator Maurice Sendak has claimed that child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim mercilessly attacked his 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are when it was first ...

Bruno Bettelheim came to New York City in May 1939 in a condition of physical and emotional devastation. An assimilated Viennese Jew, he had been captured by Nazis after the Anschluss and had ...

I recently read for the first time Bruno Bettelheim’s book, A Good Enough Parent, originally published in 1987. I don’t agree with everything in the book—it’s a bit too psychoanalytic for ...

“The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim,” by Richard Pollak. Simon &Schuster.; 480 pages. $30. Walter Bagehot noted that self-taught men tend to be “dogmatic, decisive and ...

The writer knew about this firsthand. He or she had been a student at Bettelheim’s Orthogenic School for emotionally disturbed children and saw how Bettelheim solidified his power by bullying ...