Betty Jean Lifton (1926–2010)
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Betty Jean Lifton (1926-2010) was a writer and counseling psychologist. She was a leading advocate of adoption reform, and her widely read adoption trilogy includes Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness. She was also author of Return to Hiroshima and Children of Vietnam. She was mostra altro married to the psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton. mostra meno
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Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 1975 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Lifton, Betty Jean
- Altri nomi
- Lifton, B. J.
- Data di nascita
- 1926-06-11
- Data di morte
- 2010-11-19
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Staten Island, New York, USA (birth)
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA
Tokyo, Japan
Hong Kong
New Haven, Connecticut, USA (mostra tutto 9)
New York, New York, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Barnard College (BA ∙ English literature|1948)
Union Institute (PhD|Counseling Psychology|199?) - Attività lavorative
- therapist (adoption)
psychologist
adoption reform activist
biographer
children's book author
memoirist - Relazioni
- Lifton, Robert Jay (husband)
- Breve biografia
- Betty Jean Lifton was born Blanche Rosenblatt in New York City to an unmarried couple who gave her up for adoption. She was raised in Cincinnati by adoptive parents. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Barnard College in 1948, and decades later earned a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the Union Institute. In 1952, she married Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist who became an influential author, with whom she had two children. While living with him in Japan in the early 1960s, she developed a passion for Japanese culture and folklore, and wrote many children’s books, including Kap the Kappa, Joji and the Dragon, The Rice-cake Rabbit, and The Dwarf Pine Tree. After the family returned to the USA, she spent many years tracing her birth mother, which sparked a second career as a pioneering advocate of open adoption and adoption reform. She lectured widely on adoption and wrote a trilogy of nonfiction books on the subject, including her own memoir, Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter (1975). She also worked as a therapist, specializing in adoptees and their families.
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- 30
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- Utenti
- 525
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- Voto
- 4.1
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- 5
- ISBN
- 51
- Lingue
- 4
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- 1
Władysław Szpilman schreibt als Augenzeuge des Abtransports die Szene in seinen Memoiren: „Bestimmt hat der ‚Alte Doktor‘ noch in der Gaskammer, als das Zyklon schon die kindlichen Kehlen würgte und in den Herzen der Waisen Angst an die Stelle von Freude und Hoffnung trat, mit letzter Anstrengung geflüstert: ‚Nichts, das ist nichts, Kinder‘ um wenigstens seinen kleinen Zöglingen den Schrecken des Übergangs vom Leben in den Tod zu ersparen.“
Das Buch beschreibt aber vor allem Korczaks Leben, seine Werke und Gedanken, aus denen „die Rechte der Kinder“ bekannt sind und hervorstechen. Aber natürlich kennen wir auch seine König-Macius-Erzählung (bzw. früher König Hänschen), die zu den Klassikern der Kinderliteratur zählt und in den 2000ern als Zeichentrickserie im Kika lief.
Das Buch zeigt aber auch Korzcaks Widersprüchlichkeit und Zerrissenheit - niemals gegenüber den Kindern- aber gegen sich selbst, die Umstände seines Lebens in dem er vom Polen zum Juden wurde.
Es ist ein gutes Buch, wie es einen guten Stoff erzählt.… (altro)