Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By 2007, when the United Nations designated April 2 as World Autism Awareness Day, Bruno Bettelheim had been knocked off his ...

Deficits in social skills are a key diagnostic factor in autism, but the exact opposite is seen in psychotic savants. Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) is a paradigmatic case. Although Bettelheim arrived ...

Psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, 66, who is best known for his innovative studies of children’s emotional development, has turned his protean mind to student radicals. He sees some in his private ...

To Psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, “yes” is the most important word in the English language. Yes, he says, children suffering from the most severe forms of schizophrenia can be cured. Yes, he says, ...