cover image Freud's Vienna and Other Essays

Freud's Vienna and Other Essays

Bruno Bettelheim. Vintage Books USA, $19 (308pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73188-7

In pieces that range from outstanding to bland, the author discusses Jung's breakup with Freud; Miep Gies, who sheltered Anne Frank from the Nazis; and the controversial theory of ``Jewish ghetto thinking,'' which he claims caused passivity on the part of Holocaust victims. ``Combining humanistic wisdom and clinical insight, the volume reflects eminent psychoanalyst Bettelheim's concerns as both child therapist and Holocaust survivor,'' wrote PW . (Jan.)