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Surviving, and other essays / Bruno Bettelheim.
LIBRA BF698.2 .B47 1979
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bettelheim, Bruno.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Personality change.
- Psychic trauma.
- Nazi concentration camps--Germany--Psychological aspects.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Internment camps--Germany--Psychological aspects.
- Internment camps.
- Germany.
- Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Oppression (Psychology).
- Social psychology.
- Adaptation, Psychological.
- Personality Development.
- Social Adjustment.
- Medical Subjects:
- Adaptation, Psychological.
- Personality Development.
- Social Adjustment.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 432 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Saddle Brook, New Jersey : Printed & bound by American Book-Stratford Press.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [distributed by Random House, Inc.], 1979.
- Contents:
- Part One. The ultimate limit; Trauma and reintegration; German concentration camps; Individual and mass behavior in extreme situations; The Holocaust-one generation later; "Owners of their faces"; Schizophrenia as a reaction to extreme situations
- Part Two. Education and the reality principle; The decision to fail; About Summerhill; Violence: a neglected mode of behavior; Mental health and urban design; Growing up female
- Part Three. Unconscious contributions to one's undoing; The ignored lesson of Anne Frank; Eichmann: the system, the victims; Surviving
- Part Four. Remarks on the psychological appeal of totalitarianism; Alienation and autonomy; Obsolete youth; About the sexual revolution; Portnoy psychoanalyzed; Some comments on privacy; Art and education: a personal view.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
- "First Edition."
- "This book is set in Electra, a Linotype face designed by W. A. Dwiggins (1880-1956), who was responsible for so much that is good in contemporary book design."--A Note on the Type.
- "Design by Gwen Townsend."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1979".
- ISBN:
- 039450402X
- OCLC:
- 4495473
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