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🗓️ 27 February 2025
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Bruno Bettelheim has now made it to the United States, where he executes his elaborate plan to fix "emotionally disturbed" children by making a nice concentration camp.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about bad people, and problematic people. |
0:14.8 | And we've got both this week with the story of Bruno Betelheim, a man who is really, really |
0:21.0 | testing my previous conclusion |
0:23.5 | that like there's no, there's no wrong way |
0:26.0 | to react to having been in a concentration camp, |
0:28.6 | maybe this way. |
0:29.8 | Bruno might have been the guy |
0:31.8 | to figure out the wrong way. |
0:34.8 | Had to lose all sympathy. |
0:37.1 | Yeah. |
0:38.1 | My guest with me again, as in part one, Alison Rask and Allison, how are you doing? |
0:44.8 | It's the same day, but we pretend it's a separate one. |
0:49.3 | I'm good. |
0:50.3 | What I didn't reveal in episode one, which I feel like will be more relevant for this part of his life story, is that I actually have had OCD since I was four years old. |
1:02.6 | So I was someone who was treated for pretty severe mental illness as a young child and was put on Prozac when I was four and was actually incredibly |
1:13.4 | thankful for my parents being proactive in that way and getting me the help that I needed. |
1:19.3 | So I'm like not so that is it all against taking children's mental health seriously. |
1:25.8 | And it's like kind of a lot of the activism I do. |
1:28.3 | But I think we're about to explore a scenario where that goes wrong. |
1:33.2 | Horrible, horribly wrong. |
1:34.6 | Yes, exactly. |
1:36.0 | Well, it's also, you know, it's interesting because a big part of Bruno's story and a big |
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