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The present study surveys a selected number of Bruno Bettelheim's political and clinical articles. It begins with a brief presentation of biographical notes, derived from various published interviews with Dr. Bettelheim and from the articles chosen for review. Second, it presents a discussion of his political writings, which in this study include his observations about the psychological effects of the Nazi concentration camps, his research on ethnic prejudice, and his arguments against the Vietnam war protesters. Third, it discusses various clinical articles, focusing on his commentaries on milieu therapy and early case studies of childhood schizophrenia
Dr. Zimmerman is Coordinator of Research at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School of the University of Chicago, an associate faculty member at the Illinois School for Professional Psychology, and a candidate at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.
Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Children's Residential Centers in St. Petersburg, Florida, October 11, 1990, and at the 99th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco, California, August 20, 1991.
Acknowledgment. The author expresses gratitude to Aaron A. Hilkevitch, M.D. (Chicago), and Jacquelyn Seevak Sanders, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School.
and autism. The paper concludes with a consideration of some of Bettelheim's personal attitudes during his final years.