Example sentences for: bettelheim

How can you use “bettelheim” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bettelheim's penchant for heroic narrative certainly did bolster his popular image, though Pollak gives ample evidence that his insistence on blaming mothers and claiming miracles also invited skepticism from parents and psychiatrists.

  • At the very moment The Empty Fortress was clinching his reputation as a nonauthoritarian liberator of autistic children--in other words, during the Vietnam era--a ranting Bettelheim seized the podium as an authoritarian castigator of rebellious youth.

  • Bettelheim committed suicide in 1990, evidently having found life unbearable, despite (or because of) his fictions.

  • In Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy (1996), she follows a resourceful Hansel figure as he struggles to escape a dark Viennese forest and find fame in America, "dropping little white pebbles along his path."

  • He believes that each of Bettelheim's enchantments had a self-aggrandizing public and private use--as indeed many of them did.


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