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This essay discusses the following works:
“A Final Conversation with Bruno Bettelheim”. . In Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition, by David James Fisher. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991, pp. 159-176.
“The Suicide of a Survivor: Some Intimate Perceptions of Bettelheim's Suicide”. . Psychoanal. Rev., 79 (4), Winter 1992, pp. 591-602.
The Art of the Obvious. and . New York: Knopf, 1993.
Educating the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development. , Ed. New York: Plenum Press, 1992.
“The Rise and Fall of Bruno Bettelheim”. . Psychoanal. Rev., 20 (3), Spring 1992, pp. 221-250.
“The Other Bettelheim: The Revered Psychologist Had a Dark, Violent Side”. . Washington Post, August 26, 1993, Sec. C, pp. 1 and 4-5.
Bruno Bettelheim has been a prodigious contributor to applied psychoanalytic thought. His contributions in a variety of applied psychoanalytic fields often defined the terms of debate and have made him revered by many who know his work. Though many of his theories have been disputed or proven wrong, his is a major voice in