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Not the Thing I Was Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School
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Not the Thing I Was Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School Hardcover - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Stephen Eliot


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He was called crazy. As a child, he probably was.
Sent at age eight to Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School among autistics and schizophrenics, Eliot found himself in a world without drugs or locks on the doors. Instead, fine china was on the table. The staff believed to help a child, you had to understand how he saw the world and persuade him that there might be more successful ways to interpret it. Bettelheim had been in the concentration camps. He figured if the Nazis could build an environment to destroy personality, he could build one to create it. A fascinating coming of age story that's a cross between "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Ciderhouse Rules." "L'Express" hailed the author for his "lucidity and devastating humor." "Marianne "writes, "The child who thought of himself as merely a pulsing brain invites us on a voyage back from the frontier of insanity and we return transformed." A must read for parents, teachers, therapists and troubled adolescents themselves--so that all can see there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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The time was July of 1963, I was eight, and my parents had just dropped me off at the University of Chicago Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School run by Bruno Bettelheim.

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  • Title Not the Thing I Was Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School
  • Author Stephen Eliot
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Press, New York
  • Date March 19, 2003
  • ISBN 9780312307493

About the author

Stephen Eliot lives in New York City. He received a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia University. He works as an investment banker on Wall Street, where he advises corporations and investment funds on strategy, investments, and acquisitions.
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