Negative Positive
Title: THE ABUSES OF DR. B
Review: While this book is widely embraced by educators, psychoanalysts, children's TV programmers and others, it is important that people reading it know some background about the author, Bruno Bettelheim. I suggest you read Richard Pollak's "The Creation of Dr. B," which deals with Bettelheims suspect credentials and methodology. For an even quicker primer, look at the Amazon.com on-line reviews of another Bettelheim book, "The Empty Fortress," a completely discredited and misguided work that blamed autism on "refrigerator moms" and poor parenting, thereby setting back appropriate treatment of this condition and hurting a generation of families and children.
Is the review positive or negative? 