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  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage) (Paperback) By (author) Bruno Bettelheim

  

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  Short Description for The Uses of EnchantmentA famous child psychologist explains how fairy tales educate, support, and liberate the emotions of children.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA
  • Published: 11 May 2010
  • Format: Paperback 328 pages
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  • Categories: Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology) | Child & Developmental Psychology | Psychotherapy
  • ISBN 13: 9780307739636 ISBN 10: 0307739635
  • Sales rank: 41,544

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• Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to "The Three Little Pigs," "Hansel and Gretel," and "The Sleeping Beauty," Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one's life.