by Bruno Bettelheim · Hachette Littérature · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782010189814
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«Le poids d'une vie» is the memoir and essay book by Bruno Bettelheim, published by Hachette Littérature in paperback (334 pages, in French).
Bruno Bettelheim reviews his life and intellectual journey: his encounter with psychoanalysis in Freud's Vienna, his work with psychotic children and adolescents, and a reflection on the descendants of Holocaust victims. Written with humor and lucidity, they show his passion for understanding people and the forces that move them.
The book, subtitled «essais-souvenirs», belongs to the Pluriel collection and this paperback edition is from 1993.
Recommended for those interested in psychology, the history of psychoanalysis and autobiographical essays on Holocaust memory.
Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An early writer on autism, Bettelheim's work focused on the education of emotionally disturbed children, as well as Freudian psychology more generally. In the U.S., he later gained a position as professor at the University of Chicago and director of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children, and after 1973 taught at Stanford University.
