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The Creation of Doctor B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim
The Creation of Doctor B A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim Author:Richard Pollak In this biography of the influential psychotherapist, Richard Pollak reveals how Bruno Bettelheim faked his credentials, exaggerated data, lied about his success rate with patients, sometimes abused the children in his care, and plagiarized portions of his most famous book, "The Uses of Enchantment". Pollack interviewed more than 200 people, inc... more »luding two of Bettelheim's children and many of his former patients, and had access to hundreds of letters. Pollak's 11-year-old brother died in an accidental fall in 1948, five years after becoming a patient at Bettelheim's clinic for autistic and schizophrenic children -- a death that Bettelheim himself insisted was a suicide.« less