Word: shankman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best known for his innovative studies of children's emotional development, has turned his protean mind to student radicals. He sees some in his private therapeutic practice, and observes others on the campus of the University of Chicago, where he teaches and directs the Sonia Shankman School for psychotic children. His considered conclusion is that American parents and American society have not given today's youth the emotional equipment for engaging in rational and constructive protest. In the September issue of the British magazine Encounter, Bettelheim spells out his ideas, which have been raising controversy at academic conferences...
Bettelheim, who studied under Freud, is principal of Chicago University's Sonia Shankman Orthogenic* School for psychotic children. Dismissed as ultra-permissive by some psychiatrists, his approach has been impressively successful with the 190 children he has treated since he took over the school...
Nude Super-mother. Bettelheim, who is also a University of Chicago professor of psychology and psychiatry, is now treating 53 disturbed children-an average-size group-at the Sonia Shankman School. There, restraints are totally absent. Doors are never locked. There are no bars on the windows and virtually no rules. Spankings and scoldings are forbidden. Bedrooms burst with toys and stuffed animals. A soda fountain and an unlocked cupboard brimming with cookies and candy await any child with a nagging thirst and a sweet tooth. Outside in the grassy courtyard, a concrete nude "supermother"-twice life-size-sprawls...