The Empty Fortress Quotes

“All my life, I have been working with children whose lives were destroyed because their mothers hated them.”
1981 re: cause of autism”
― Bruno Bettelheim, The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self

“But had Minkowski and Einstein not recognized it long before us, our schizophrenic children would have taught us that space-time is a unity that precedes any separate understanding of either category; just as grasping this unity is a precondition for understanding causality.”
― Bruno Bettelheim, The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self