Bruno Bettelheim and the concentration camps

Bruno Bettelheim ( 1903 – 1990 ) R Paul Marcus

BRUNO BETTELHEIM WAS born in Vienna to uppermiddle-class assimilated Jewish parents, Pauline and Anton Bettelheim, on 28 August 1903. Though born when the Hapsburgs still ruled the Austro-Hungarian empire, Bettelheim grew up during the age of Freud. By age fourteen he was already voraciously reading in psychoanalysis, an angle of vision that was to inform his later writings on survivorship and ...

The lasting trauma of the concentration camps.

The children and grandchildren ofsurvivors may also be affected We have known for centuries that traumatic events, physical or mental, have a profound and often lasting effect on the personality. Yet somehow we keep forgetting this phenomenon: it has been rediscovered, redescribed, and renamed by each generation. War reminds us forcibly of the facts. In the past 100 years, the immediate impact ...

Psychology in Franco’s Concentration Camps

3 INTELLECTUALS AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR On July, 18th, 1936, a faction of the Spanish Army rebelled against the government of the Republic. A Civil War began, which lasted until April 1st, 1939. The conflict quickly gained international dimensions. In intellectual environments, the Spanish RepublicÕs support for the anti-fascist fight was majority. In the United States of America some groups ...

[Facing death at the Birkenau and Ravensbrueck concentration camps].

Bettelheim among the folklorists.

Psychoanalysis and folklore have been uneasy bedfellows. Any psychoanalytic interpretation of folktales makes folklorists twist and turn. Their reactions have ranged from ambivalent acceptance to unequivocal rejection. Psychoanalysts, on the other hand, are ever too ready to consider such a reaction as denial, or at least avoidance of the "true" meaning of fairy tales. As a psychoanalyst, Bruno...