A revealing portrait of the renowned child psychologist, whose legacy has been contested since his suicide in 1990. Drawing extensively upon his long years of friendship with Bettelheim, Raines explores the crucial intervals and questions of an extraordinary life.
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A revealing portrait of the renowned child psychologist, whose legacy has been contested since his suicide in 1990. Drawing extensively upon his long years of friendship with Bettelheim, Raines explores the crucial intervals and questions of an extraordinary life.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Alfred A Knopf, 2002. ype: Hard Back First Edition. Hardcover in Fine Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Clean, unmarked, tight & solid volume bound in gray cloth over spine with gilt titles, red boards. The life of renowned child psychologist, Bruno Bettelheim, 1903-1990, from his life of wealth in Vienna to Dachau and Buchenwald and all their horrors which his intellect helped him survive. His eventual voyage to the New World brought him to Chicago and his development of a total therapeutic milieu for children unable to survive at home or in any school. The parallels he drew between the concentration camp prisoner and the inner world of the disturbed child and his Freudian convictions about human nature gave him an uncanny insight into that child's world. The author also explores the criticisms after his death about his writings and his unorthodox clinical methods. 518 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 2002, Alfred A Knopf, New York, New York, USA.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x4x1; Hardcover with dust jacket. Stated First Edition. 1st printing (no later printings indicated). Inscribed by the author, Theron Raines, and date Sept.2, 2002; no other markings. Ships in a box. Ships from NYC.
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Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. A few scuffs to jacket. Stated First Edition.; Signed and inscribed by author.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; Signed by Author.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Book in as New condition. Clean bright pages, tight binding. Seems never used. Covers clean and unmarked. DJ shows minor shelf wear and curling along edges. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 544 p. Audience: General/trade. Book in as New condition. Clean bright pages, tight binding. Seems never used. Covers clean and unmarked. DJ shows minor shelf wear and curling along edges. First Edition.
