He was called crazy. As a child, he probably was.

Sent at age eight to Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School among autistics and schizophrenics, Eliot found himself in a world without drugs or locks on the doors. Instead, fine china was on the table. The staff believed to help a child, you had to understand how he saw the world and persuade him that there might be more successful ways to interpret it. Bettelheim had been in the concentration camps. He figured if the Nazis could build an environment to destroy personality, he could build one to create it.

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Personen: Eliot, Stephen

Schlagwörter: Psychotherapie psychische Störungen psychische Störungen Kinder und Jugendliche Kinder und Jugendliche KJP Gerda Lederer