Bruno Bettelheim

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"Nina Sutton spent years tracing Bettelheim's footsteps from Vienna to Los Angeles, via Chicago, Basel and Jerusalem, in an attempt to understand him and solve the enigma which is at the centre of his work: how he managed to turn his experiences of Nazi cruelty into a cure for mad children." "The author shows how Bettelheim discovered his life force as a concentration camp inmate and then attempted to use his own aggression as a lightning rod for the anger and violence within the children in his care." "She interviewed students and colleagues, friends and enemies, and uncovered rare documents including his letters from Buchenwald and Dachau." "This powerful biography uncovers the series of paradoxes that characterise the life and personality of an extraordinary man."--BOOK JACKET