PSYCHOLOGIST

Bruno Bettelheim

1903 - 1990

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Bruno Bettelheim (German: [ˈbɛtl̩haɪm]; August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was an Austrian-born American psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An early writer on autism, Bettelheim's work focused on the education of emotionally disturbed children, as well as Freudian psychology more generally. In the U.S., he later gained a position as professor at the University of Chicago and director of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children, and after 1973 taught at Stanford University. Bettelheim's ideas, which grew out of those of Sigmund Freud, theorized that children with behavioral and emotional disorders were not born that way, and could be treated through extended psychoanalytic therapy, treatment that rejected the use of psychotropic drugs and shock therapy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bruno Bettelheim is the 67th most popular psychologist (down from 50th in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from Austria (down from 169th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

Bruno Bettelheim was a German-born American psychoanalyst and writer who was most famous for his work with children who had been traumatized by the Holocaust.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 67 out of 235. Before him are Alice Miller, Fritz Perls, Leon Festinger, William Stern, Raymond Moody, and Philip Zimbardo. After him are Alexander Luria, Karl Bühler, Margaret Mahler, Karl Abraham, Otto Rank, and Ernst Kretschmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 51. Before him are Claudette Colbert, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Julius Fučík, Abul A'la Maududi, Eliot Ness, and Giulio Natta. After him are Andrei Grechko, Claudio Arrau, Kenneth Clark, Georg Elser, George Davis Snell, and Ernest Walton. Among people deceased in 1990, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 34. Before him are Arthur Kennedy, Keith Haring, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Barbara Stanwyck, Oldřich Nejedlý, and Michael Powell. After him are Rex Harrison, Manly P. Hall, Bruno Kreisky, Lawrence Durrell, Sergio Corbucci, and Jacques Demy.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 235 out of 1,424. Before him are Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (1533), Erich von Stroheim (1885), Leopold I, Duke of Austria (1290), Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1680), Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943), and Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553). After him are Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (1586), Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871), Elizabeth of Austria (1437), Josef von Sternberg (1894), Anna of Tyrol (1585), and Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (1176).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Bruno Bettelheim ranks 5. Before him are Alfred Adler (1870), Viktor Frankl (1905), Anna Freud (1895), and Melanie Klein (1882). After him are Otto Rank (1884), Paul Watzlawick (1921), Otto Gross (1877), Heinz Kohut (1913), René Spitz (1887), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), and Walter Mischel (1930).

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