The Uses of Enchantment: Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Peregrine Books)

Dr. Bettleheim has written this book t help adults become aware of the irreplaceable importance of tairy tales. By revealing the true content of such stories, he shows how children may make use of them to cope with their baffling emotions, whether they be feelings of smallness and helplessness, or the anxieties the child feels about strangers and the mysteries of the outside world.