Awards & Winners

Bruno Bettelheim

Date of Birth 28-August-1903
Place of Birth Vienna
(Austria)
Nationality United States of America, Austria, Austria-Hungary
Profession Scientist, Writer, Psychologist
Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American child psychologist and writer. He gained an international reputation for his work on Freud, psychoanalysis, and emotionally disturbed children. Currently, Bettelheim's theories in which he attributes autism spectrum conditions to parenting style are considered to be thoroughly discredited. However, as Michael Rutter has observed, "Many people made a mistake in going from a statement which is undoubtedly true - that there is no evidence that autism has been caused by poor parenting - to the statement that it has been disproven. It has not actually been disproven. It has faded away simply because, on the one hand, of a lack of convincing evidence and on the other hand, an awareness that autism was a neurodevelopmental disorder of some kind."

Awards by Bruno Bettelheim

Check all the awards nominated and won by Bruno Bettelheim.

1977


National Book Award for Contemporary Thought
Honored for : The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Contemporary Thought The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

1976


National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Honored for : The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales