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In "Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations," published in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology in 1943, Bettelheim suggested that his fellow camp prisoners were soon reduced to "types of behavior which are characteristic of infancy or early youth," playing into the hands of the SS rather than standing up to them.
Again and again in his writings, Bettelheim insisted that the daunting task of "inner integration" was a developmental ordeal that could be mastered with great struggle, and with the support of good stories.
Both Sutton's and Pollak's Bettelheim allegories--the renegade from the narrow Freudian path and the total fraud--have obvious iconic appeal for our post-psychoanalytic era.
Yet, even before the factual distortions were suggested, Bettelheim's argument was disconcerting on other grounds.
As debate about the Holocaust unfolded, Bettelheim's initial renown as a heroic witness gave way to cloudier repute as a blamer of victims.
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