The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

Author(s): Bruno Bettelheim

Culture

Helps adults become aware of the importance of fairy tales. By revealing the content of such stories he shows how children may make use of them to cope with their emotions, whether they be feelings of smallness and helplessness or the anxieties the child feels about strangers.

General Information

  • : 9780140137279
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.254
  • : 01 April 1991
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Bruno Bettelheim
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 398.2
  • : 328 plus Index
  • : Child & developmental psychology; Popular psychology

More About The Product

Bruno Bettelheim was Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago from 1944 to 1973. He died in 1990.