Love is Not Enough: The Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Children

by Bruno Bettelheim

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029032806
• ISBN13: 9780029032800
• Release Date: June 1950
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

not your usual run-of-the-mill psychobabble. An eye-opener

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...

...but he blamed the parents, while reaearch has shown that many mental illnesses have a bio-chemicl bases.