Empty FortressEvaluating the lifestyles, struggles, and dehumanization of children with Autism over the years, University of Chicago professor Bruno Bettelheim provides insight on the life of these children from the perspectives of what can and cannot be seen. Focusing on three case histories, The Empty Fortress provides an introduction to the problems and struggles that an autistic child faces during their early years. One of the most popular books in communicating the theory of psychogenesis, Bruno Bettelheim presents both a scientific and personal analysis of autism. |
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Contents
In the Region of Shadows | 3 |
Joey | 10 |
Where the Self Begins | 13 |
Strangers to Life | 50 |
A Note on Passionate Indifference | 89 |
Laurie | 95 |
A sheet torn into one long strip | 139 |
A boundary of sine curves | 145 |
First DAYs AT THE school | 250 |
A MACHIN EPOWERED BoDY | 261 |
Feces extracted by electricity | 265 |
world of MIRE | 272 |
A dinosaur eliminating | 274 |
The BoDY Autistic | 283 |
RegRession As Progress | 290 |
keNRAD the terrible | 298 |
EARLY DAYS AT THE SCHOOL | 161 |
Begin NINGs of selfassertion | 170 |
RELATING | 177 |
Bolic Expression | 184 |
EARLY identity | 198 |
THE 1 APPEARs | 206 |
Work in G T H Rou Gh 21 i | 214 |
MORE WORKING THROUGH 2 2 1 | 221 |
Joeys nighttime machinery | 237 |
out PATIENT TREATMENT | 242 |
The electric papoose | 302 |
Mitchell the Good | 309 |
TH F Mi RAculous EGG | 320 |
No More Pox No More Ash | 327 |
Persistence of a Myth | 343 |
Etiology and Treatment | 385 |
On the Nature of Autism | 424 |
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| Title | Empty Fortress |
| Author | Bruno Bettelheim |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1967 |
| ISBN | 0029031400, 9780029031407 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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