Creator Bio
Bruno Bettelheim
1903–1990
Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna to a secular Jewish family and received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1938. He was interned in Dachau and Buchenwald and arrived as a refugee in New York in 1939. Bettelheim was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago from 1944 until 1973. He was widely known for his work on child psychology, especially his theories about emotionally disturbed children.
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Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations
[ . . . ] On a terribly cold winter night when a snowstorm was blowing, all prisoners were punished by being forced to stand at attention without overcoats—they never wore any—for hours. This was…