Novelist and journalist Richard Pollak may have been drawn to write The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim to seek clarity regarding the fate of his younger brother, who had been a resident pupil at the Orthogenic School from 1943 to 1948. I was drawn to reviewing this biography of my ex-Austrian compatriot because I had personally met Dr. Bettelheim at several conferences, had repeatedly heard him shout from international podiums while indulging in self-righteous tongue lashings to reduce people to fools if they had different opinions. Moreover, I disagreed with the theoretical message of each of his books and reviewed his last book, Freud and Man's Soul, unfavorably. While I am thus preparing our readers for a doubly biased viewpoint, I also think that both author and reviewer were willing to suspend