Educating the Emotions Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Developme

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Educating the Emotions Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development

Edited by

NATHAN M. SZAJNBERG, M.D. West Hurtford, Connecticut

SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC

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Educating the emations : Bruno Bettp.lheim and psychoanalytic development ; edited by Nathan M. Szajnberg. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4613-6460-3 ISBN 978-1-4615-3316-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-3316-0

1. Psychoanalysis. 2. Child psychotherapy--Residential treatment. 3. Education~l psychology. 4. Bettelheim, Bruno. I. SzaJnberg, Nathan M. II. Bettelheim, Bruno. [DNLM: 1. Affective Disorders--in infaney & ehi ldhood. 2. Chi ld, Institutionalized--psyehology. 3. Child Psyehology. 4. Psythoanalytie theory. 5. Psyehology, Edueational. 6. Teaehing.

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RC509.E28 1992 616.8S· 17--de2C

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ISBN 978-1-4613-6460-3

© 1992 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by P1enum Press, New York in 1992 AlI rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher

To my parents, my past To Debby, my love To Sonia and Lily, my future

Contributors ROBERT BERGMAN, M.D. • 2271 N.E. 51st Street, Seattle, Washington 98105 BERTRAM J. COHLER, Ph. D. • Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, 5730 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637 ELla FRATTAROLl, M.D. • 168 Gramercy Road, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004 ROBERT M. GALATZER-LEVY, M.D. • The Institute for Psychoanalysis, 180 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601 JOSEPH D. NOSHPITZ, M.D. • 314134th Street N.W, Washington, D.c. 20008 ROBERT A. PAUL, Ph.D. • Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 NATHAN M. SZAJNBERG, M.D. • 24 Chapman Road, West Hartford, Connecticut 06107

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It is one's inner experience that permits gaining a full grasp of what is involved in the inner experiences of others, a knowledge which then can become the basis for theoretical studies. (Bettelheim, 1990, p. 36)

The great contribution he [Freud] has made to our understanding of literature ... [is] what he says about the nature of the human mind: he showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind. (Trilling, 1965, p. 92) . . . Creativity. . . refers to a colouring of the whole attitude to external reality. It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living. (Winnicott, 1971, p. 65) The eternal aim of Art: to give expression to the myths we need to live by and to affirm life, both in tragedy and comedy. (Bettelheim, 1990, p. 120) Humanist: A person having a strong ... concern for human welfare, values and dignity. (Random House Dictionary, 1987)

Preface Although Bruno Bettelheim died before this book was finished, he was present