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by crims0n 1296 days ago
Highly recommend looking into the author... was about to order the book but saw a lot of stuff I didn't like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bettelheim
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From Wikipedia: “ Much of his work was discredited after his death due to fraudulent academic credentials, allegations of patient abuse, accusations of plagiarism, and lack of oversight by institutions and the psychological community.”

The article describes all of this in detail.