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  The Witch Must Die: How Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives (Paperback) By (author) Sheldon Cashdan

  

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  Short Description for The Witch Must DieIn The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has the underlying significance of fantasy and fairy tales been so insightfully and entertainingly mined.
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  • Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
  • Published: 16 June 2000
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Folklore, Myths & Legends | Child & Developmental Psychology | Psychotherapy
  • ISBN 13: 9780465008964 ISBN 10: 0465008968
  • Sales rank: 241,947

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Full description for The Witch Must Die

• A noted psychologist shows how fairy tales are a powerful aid to growing up, banishing fears, resolving conflicts, and conquering the darkness that dwells within us.. In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has the underlying significance of fantasy and fairy tales been so insightfully and entertainingly mined.