Word: bettelheim
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...universities can pool so many resources to find out. Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, for example, is pioneering rehabilitation techniques with "incurably" maladjusted children. "I hope we can help him," says Beadle. "There are tremendous possibilities." Also potentially involved: Chicago's graduate school of education, which non-education professors confidently call "better than Harvard's." Dean Francis Chase proudly points out that his school, unlike Harvard's, gives doctorates only in philosophy, not education. More than half the graduates become "machine tools," teaching at other education schools...
Forcefully reiterating his Harper's article of last October, Bettelheim warned that women cannot rely on their husbands to relieve the boredom of "busy-work" in the woman's home role. He urged that a woman have "a challenging, stimulating intellectual life of her own" so that she does not come to blame her husband for the monotony of her life and the resulting feelings of dissatisfaction...
...want to scare you," Bettelheim said, "but the most frequent complaint of educated married women is that 'my husband doesn't talk...
...Bettelheim touched briefly on the problems created by the fact that men and women are now, in the post-Victorian period, highly conscious of their sexual relationships. "Each is terribly anxious to give the other complete satisfaction," Bettelheim said. "If the woman does not reach this goal, she worries that she is frigid; the man fears that he is not masculine enough for her to enjoy...
...thus becomes another area of competition, a contest to see who can make whom have the more satisfying sexual experience," Bettelheim concluded...