Bruno Bettelheim

12.5k citations
116 papers · 4.3k · 2 hit papers · h-index 25

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    • Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research 5
    • Psychological Treatments and Disorders 5
    • Psychiatric care and mental health services 3
    • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance 4

Bruno Bettelheim

98 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Bruno Bettelheim's Hit Papers

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales 1976 · 965 citations
9650+19+38Years since publication250500750

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Bruno Bettelheim
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  • General Psychology 149
  • Literature and Literary Theory 804
  • Clinical Psychology 1.3k
  • Gender Studies 318
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 398
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
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1976965
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Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, by Robert Jay Lifton
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1969403
3 1978363
4
The empty fortress
1967227
5
The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self
1972216
6
Freud and man's soul
1982214
7 1989186
8 1977154
9 1955148
10 1970115
11 1967112
12 1965109
13
Surviving, and other essays
197999
14 196175
15 195947
16 196142
17
Truants from life
195540
18
Psicoanálisis de los cuentos de hadas
199037
19
A good enough parent : a book on child-rearing
198737
20 195937

About Bruno Bettelheim

Bruno Bettelheim is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Literature and Literary Theory, having authored 116 papers that have together received 4.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Psychoanalysis and Social Critique (6 papers), Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (5 papers), Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research (5 papers), Sociology and Education Studies (5 papers), Psychological Treatments and Disorders (5 papers), Youth Substance Use and School Attendance (4 papers), Social Sciences and Policies (3 papers) and Psychiatric care and mental health services (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Psychology (149 citations), Literature and Literary Theory (804 citations), Clinical Psychology (1.3k citations), Gender Studies (318 citations) and Developmental and Educational Psychology (398 citations). Bruno Bettelheim has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Joseph Falaky Nagy, David F. Aberle, Alan C. Kerckhoff, Philip E. Slater, Morris Janowitz, Melvin Seeman, Irwin Silverman, William F. Ogburn, B.M. Wright and Gerhard Bösch. Their work appears in journals such as American Sociological Review, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, The Elementary School Journal, Scientific American and American Journal of Sociology.

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