Love is not enough: The treatment of emotionally disturbed children
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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. There has been a revolution in our understanding of mental illness and its effect on society. These and other... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B0007EEEIS
Release Date:January 1971
Publisher:Avon Books
Length:415 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
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not your usual run-of-the-mill psychobabble. An eye-opener
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
I don't think Bettelheim ruled out biochemistry in mental illness. Freud believed that biochemistry plays a big part, and one has to suppose Bettelheim did too. It's just that he was not interested in that aspect. That sort of thing is boring to me too. I want to know the meaning of the symptoms. Bettelheim provides that. What's more, if your child has a predisposition to mental illness, you should know it and be really careful not to do anything that triggers it or makes it worse. Nowadays they provide alternate birth centers to lessen the impact of the birth trauma. That was an idea suggested by psychoanalysis.
An important book...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
...but he blamed the parents, while reaearch has shown that many mental illnesses have a bio-chemicl bases.
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