Great PsyChologists as Parents: Does knowing the theory make you an expert?
David Cohen
Parents often look for answers to questions about parenting in books written by psychologists. But were the founders of scientific theories of child development good parents? Based on letters, diaries, autobiographies and interviews, David Cohen contrasts the ideas of great psychologists about raising children with how they themselves raised their own offspring in his study "Did You Wash Your Hands?" based on letters, diaries, autobiographies and interviews. The author tells about the family life of 11 scientists, including the psychoanalysts Freud and Jung, the naturalist Darwin, the founder of developmental psychology Bowlby, and the famous Dr. Spock.
