Introduction: the struggle for meaningBettelheim, B
It took years before parents (and especially mothers) were able to get beyond the guilt heaped upon them by psychoanalysts like Bruno Bettelheim who promoted these preposterous ideas. We may think we have come far since the days of Bettelheim. Relatively speaking, our modern culture hasn’t yet...
including a number of psychodynamic theories, such as Bruno Bettelheim’s claim that autism results from a lack of maternal affective warmth, the so-called “refrigerator mother” theory, have been discounted with the
However, there is some interesting research on the types of scenarios in television programs known as “teen drama”, in which three narrative modalities have been identified: theabstinence scenario, which idealizes the value of virginity that is always delayed; the urgency script, meaning that de...
a theatre. Bruno Bettelheim (1991) argues that fairytales, from where many pantomimes are drawn, are our first negotiations with the monstrous. In pantomime, the audience are complicit in the act of finding, chasing and dealing with the monster, and the ethical positioning of this by writers ...
TheUsesofEnchantment:theMeaningandImportanceofFairyTales BrunoBettelheim ChildpsychologistDr.Bettleheimexplainshowfairytaleseducate,support,and liberatetheemotionsofchildren. –7– ByRoaldDahl Adaptedforthestage byDavidWood TheBigFriendlyGiantTheBigFriendlyGiant ...
and Bruno Bettelheim wrote "Freud and Man's Soul" (Bettelheim 1983). Kohut moved my interest and knowledge of self-psychology into an area of "healing", and Bettelheim confirmed my work in addiction and its relationship to the "soul" within psychoanalysis. My CBT/REBT language now became ...