
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 14, 1990                   TAG: 9003142668
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHICAGO                                 LENGTH: Short

CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST BRUNO BETTELHEIM DIES IN MARYLAND

Bruno Bettelheim, a psychologist and psychiatrist who studied under Sigmund Freud and gained fame for his work with emotionally disturbed children, killed himself Tuesday in a Maryland nursing home. He was 86.

Maryland's chief medical examiner, Dr. John E. Smialek, said Tuesday night that one of his deputies who examined Bettelheim had determined the cause of death was suicidal asphyxiation.

Bettelheim lived at The Charter House nursing home in Silver Spring, Md..

He ran the University of Chicago's Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School for disturbed children from 1944 to 1973 and was a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the university.

Bettelheim, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, gained early notice for his study of death-camp prisoners.

He was born Aug. 28, 1903, in Vienna, Austria. He was educated in Vienna, where he studied under Freud, the famous psychoanalyst.

He took over the orthogenic school in 1944 and brought it to world prominence.

Bettelheim wrote widely about disturbed children and other social problems.

His works included "Dynamics of Prejudice," published in 1950; "Love is Not Enough," published in 1950; "Truants from Life," published in 1955; "The Informed Heart," published in 1960; and "The Children of the Dream," published in 1969.

by CNB