Bettelheim

He’s been Will Bettelheim, a worker at a trendy Los Angeles health food market.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D., is a life coach and a child, marriage, and family psychotherapist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and other publications.

The message of these works, according to Bettelheim, is “that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence — but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.”

In the mid-1970s, the psychologist Bruno Bettelheim wrote “The Uses of Enchantment,” in which he analyzed fairy tales and folk tales as vehicles for children to process deep-seated impulses and anxieties, from sibling rivalry to shame and anger.

Bettelheim described Joey as a “human machine” who escaped into autism because his existence “never registered with his mother.”