The empty fortress; infantile autism and the birth of the self. / Bruno Bettelheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bettelheim, Bruno.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autism in children.

Autistic Disorder.

Medical Subjects:

Autistic Disorder.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (autograph) (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 484 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Free Press ; London : Collier-Macmillan Limited, [1967]

Contents:

Part One. The World of Encounter. In the region of shadows; Where the self begins; Strangers to life

Part Two. Three Case Histories. A Note on Passionate Indifference. Laurie; Marcia; Joey

Part Three. Wolf Children. Persistence of a myth

Part Four. A Discussion of the Literature on Infantile Autism.Etiology and treatment; On the nature of autism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-468) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Adena & Chaim Potok January 1969 Philadelphia".

Potok Collection copy is "Third printing August 1967".

OCLC:

619444