The Uses Of Enchantment: The Meaning And Importance Of Fairy Tales
Author: Bruno Bettelheim
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: $27.99 AUD
: 9780140137279
: Penguin Books, Limited
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: 01 April 1991
: 198mm X 128mm X 22mm
: United Kingdom
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: Bruno Bettelheim
: Penguin Psychology Ser.
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: Child & developmental psychology; Popular psychology
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Description
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.
Author description
Bruno Bettelheim was Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago from 1944 to 1973. He died in 1990.