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The Children of the Dream. Communal Child-Rearing and its Implications for Society

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The Print Room
(Lilley nr Luton, Reino Unido)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, slight yellowing to largely white jacket. Not price clipped (£2.10, £2.50), faint charity stamp on front and back pastedown, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 363pp. Child rearing on an Israeli kibbutz is wildly different from Western society methods. Babies are moved to infants houses four days after delivery and spend the rest of their youth with peer groups living in toddlers, childrens and youth houses. They see their natural parents at certain times a day but otherwise are supervised by a variety of 'metapelets' or caregivers. Viennese American Freudian psycholanalyst and concentration camp survivor Bruno Bettelheim (1903-90), fascinated by his own experience with institutionalized children and suspicious that the professional accounts of kibbutz child rearing were prejudiced by Western attitudes towards non parental upbringing, studied a particular kibbutz in the summer of 1964, taping interviews, filming, conducting seminars. After Bettelheim's suicide in 1990, it was revealed that he had substantially misrepresented his background and academic credentials. In particular, his doctorate was in art history and he had only taken three introductory classes in psychology. It was also revealed that he frequently hit students even though he spoke and wrote against corporal punishments. Some counsellors at the Chicago Orthogenic School saw only corporal punishment, whereas some but not all students saw rage and out of control violence. Kibbutzim have evolved since the 1950s. The people of the kibbutzim wanted their children to live at home and not in the children's house so communal sleeping arrangements have been brought to an end. A classic anthropological text. Nº de ref. del artículo: 005597

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