One of the most famous living psychiatrists argues that mistranslation has grossly distorted Freud's work and meaning in English and "led students to see a system intended to cooperate flexibly with individual needs as a set of rigid rules to be applied by external authority.''
Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He received his doctorate at the University of Vienna and came to America in 1939, after a year in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He was a distinguished professor of education and professor of both psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He died in 1990.
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One of the most famous living psychiatrists argues that mistranslation has grossly distorted Freud's work and meaning in English and "led students to see a system intended to cooperate flexibly with individual needs as a set of rigid rules to be applied by external authority.''
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Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He received his doctorate at the University of Vienna and came to America in 1939, after a year in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He was a distinguished professor of education and professor of both psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He died in 1990.
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