by Bruno Bettelheim · Laia. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472224872
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The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self is a book by the renowned author Bruno Bettelheim. In this work, Bettelheim explores infantile autism in depth, analyzing its causes and offering perspectives on the development of the self in children suffering from this condition. The book, published in 1981 by Laia, is a valuable contribution to the field of child psychiatry and offers a comprehensive and detailed view of autism.
Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An early writer on autism, Bettelheim's work focused on the education of emotionally disturbed children, as well as Freudian psychology more generally. In the U.S., he later gained a position as professor at the University of Chicago and director of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children, and after 1973 taught at Stanford University.
