The Creation of Doctor B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim

Richard Pollak
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A candid portrait of Bruno Bettelheim charges that most of the influential psychotherapist's life was marked by deception, faked credentials, exaggerated data, abuse of the children in his care, plagiarism, and a success rate with patients lower than the therapist reported. 25,000 first printing.
Genres: BiographyHistoryNonfictionPsychologyBiography Memoir
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