Bruno Bettelheim was once lauded for helping children with autism. Upon on his death, it became apparent that he had pulled off a monumental scientific fraud.
The title of this week’s episode ”Let’s go Bruno” requires some explanation, though you’d be right in assuming that “Bruno” fills the same place as “Brandon” in the more familiar slogan of the moment. In this case it refers to the famous and celebrated child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim. Lucretia was struck by Ann Bauer’s searing article at Tablet, “I Have Been Through This Before,” which recounts the awful abusiveness and quackery of