Biography Bettelheim Bruno

Any problem has a solution Bettelheim Bruno. A specialist in the field of treatment and teaching children with impaired emotional sphere, mainly suffering from autism. It is also known for pioneering work on the study of people's behavior in the extreme conditions of concentration camps, male growing up and its rituals, the psychological role of fairy tales and reading in general in raising children.

Born in the year in Vienna, by education - a children's doctor, the one whom we would now call a "child psychotherapist." Bettelheim is a representative of the Vienna School of Psychoanalysis. At first - a follower of Freud, later developed his own topic, the essence of which is the influence of the environment on the formation and behavior of man.

All his life Bettelheim treated children and wrote a lot of wonderful books about them. He received the degree of Doctor of Vienna University in the year. Two years have become a turning point for him - and, which he sat in a concentration camp, first in Dachau, and then in Buchenwald. There, Bettelheim decided, which made him Bettelheim. In order not to go crazy, he, as a professional psychologist, began to study, undoubtedly painful, human behavior in a concentration camp.

So the book "Enlightened Heart" was born. The book, which Bettelheim “wrote” in the camp, saved his life - protected from the camp, allowed him to remain a man. After liberation in the year, he emigrated to the United States, where he received the position of a researcher in the Society for the Development of Education at the University of Chicago. In Bettelheim, he worked as a senior teacher at Rockford College.

In Bruno Bettelheim, he received the assistant at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago and was simultaneously appointed director of the Sony Shenkman Clinic School. In this boarding school, for children from 6 to 14 years old with deep disorders of the emotional sphere, his work with autistic children was further concentrated. The senior teacher in and professor with the year, Bettelheim devoted his work to the use of a psychoanalytic approach to social issues, and above all in raising children.

This is reflected in the books: “Not only Love”, “Running away from Life” in Bettelheim resigned. In his printed works and in research activities, Bruno sought to find methods of therapy for emotional disorders in children who would allow not only to facilitate their suffering, but also to help become active members of society. His works contain ideas that are useful for working with healthy children.

Bettelheim is also the author of books: “empty fortress” - about autistic children; “Children of the Dream” - about the role of society in raising children in Israeli kibbutsy - experience, on the basis of which Bruno Bettelheim called for a revision of traditional methods of family education; “On the benefits of fairy tales” after the death of his wife in the year and the stroke Bruno Bettelheim in the year 5, the library section: age psychology Bruno Bettelheim, is a world -famous psychotherapist.

With love and wisdom, he answers difficult and painful questions that faces any parents. For all those interested in education issues.