(born August 28, 1903, Vienna, Austria-died March 13, 1990, Silver Spring, Md., U.S.), Austrian-born American psychologist known for his work in treating and educating emotionally disturbed children.īettelheim worked in his family's lumber business in Vienna, but after the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938 he was placed in German concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald because he was Jewish.If Flaubert could famously say “I am Madame Bovary” (or more precisely, "Madame Bovary, C'est moi"), indicating that style is more important than narrative, that a book about nothing could be elevated by the author’s brilliance, then we can see that Harold Brodkey modifies the claim further by suggesting “I am Harold Brodkey.” While Flaubert thought there was a thin line between the ostensibly huge chasm of Bovary and himself, Brodkey would continuously write stories about a man so much like Brodkey that Flaubert’s provocative claim became a tautological one.
After his release in 1939, he immigrated to the United States, where he became a research associate with the Progressive Education Association at the University of Chicago. Later he served as an associate professor at Rockford (Ill.) College (1942-44). In October 1943 he wrote an article that won wide and immediate recognition, "Individual and Mass Behaviour in Extreme Situations." Based on his observations and experiences at Dachau and Buchenwald, this pioneer study examined human adaptability to the stresses of concentration-camp lifeand considered the effects of Nazi terrorism on personality.īy this time Bettelheim claimed to have earned a doctorate at the University of Vienna.
In 1944 he was appointed both assistant professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and head of the university's Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, a residential laboratory school for 6- to 14-year-old children with serious emotional problems, which became the centre of his work with autistic children.
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