Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By 2007, when the United Nations designated April 2 as World Autism Awareness Day, Bruno Bettelheim had been knocked off his ...

I have to take issue with the story “Kids’ Stories, Grown-Up Business” (by Rachel Abramowitz, Aug. 4) referencing the much discredited Bruno Bettelheim. To pillory Bettelheim today, one would have to ...

Celeste Fremon is the author of "Father Greg & the Homeboys: The Extraordinary Journey of Father Greg Boyle and His Work With the Latino Gangs of East L.A." When the famed psychologist and writer ...

Deficits in social skills are a key diagnostic factor in autism, but the exact opposite is seen in psychotic savants. Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) is a paradigmatic case. Although Bettelheim arrived ...

Bruno Bettelheim came to New York City in May 1939 in a condition of physical and emotional devastation. An assimilated Viennese Jew, he had been captured by Nazis after the Anschluss and had spent 11 ...