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“... for the beginning, but if you want someone to hate, I suggest you switch your antipathy to Bruno Bettelheim, whose book The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self (1967) cemented the idea that autism should be treated by psychoanalysis. Kanner was not wholly wrong, by the way. Simon Baron-Cohen, the best-known British autism ...”

“... her original critique of the maternal instinct, was published in 1981. When her editor invited Bruno Bettelheim to contribute a preface, he replied: I’ve spent my whole life working with children whose lives have been destroyed because their mothers hated them … Which demonstrates that there is no maternal instinct – of course there isn’t ...”

“... Paul Keegan, for example, in his introduction to The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, follows Bruno Bettelheim in complaining about versions of Freud’s Fehlleistung, his word for what we know as a ‘slip’. It’s true that the German word is a fine one, made up of the idea of missing or failing (Fehl) and the idea of achievement or performance ...”

“... psychiatric opinion at the time that lent support for the idea of breaking nuclear bonds. Bruno Bettelheim, not yet discredited, had put the concept of the ‘refrigerator mother’ into general circulation. R.D. Laing’s sense of the family unit as a ‘protection racket’ further buttressed Sullivanian thinking. There was also Engels, whose ...”

“... and it may be no accident that two of its more important exponents – Hannah Arendt and Bruno Bettelheim – were representatives of the German-speaking as opposed to the Yiddish sector of Jewish intellectual culture. Of course, there was an important strain of quietism within the Jewish religion (as there is in most religions), normally but ...”

“... And psychoanalysis reciprocated the favour. Not only did analysts like Robert Jay Lifton and Bruno Bettelheim help construct the Holocaust as the paradigmatic case of a traumatic event that could not fail to leave ‘a trace on the individual and collective memory’, they also developed a clinical entity, ‘survivor syndrome’ or ‘survivor ...”

“... on being able to write and talk about the camps in limpid, even clinical prose. He thought that Bruno Bettelheim’s psychological theories about the camps were so much arid intellectualism. He responded to Jean Améry’s criticism that he was a ‘forgiver’ by broadening the debate: ‘I never forgave our enemies of that time, nor do I feel I can ...”

“... turnabout in pedagogical thinking, of which perhaps the classic expression can be found in Bruno Bettelheim’s The Uses of Enchantment, in which he argues that the horrors and threats and subterfuges in the stories help children through the loneliness and haplessness of childhood and the difficulties of growing up. Maurice Sendak, author and ...”