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Erich Seligmann Fromm (; German: [fʁɔm]; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Life Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt am Main, the only child of Orthodox Jewish parents, Rosa (Krause) and Naphtali Fromm. He started his academic studies in 1918 at the University of Frankfurt am Main with two semesters of jurisprudence. During the summer semester of 1919, Fromm studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he began studying sociology under Alfred Weber (brother of sociologist Max Weber), psychiatrist-philosopher Karl Jaspers, and Heinrich Rickert. Fromm received his PhD in sociology from Heidelberg in 1922 with a dissertation "On Jewish Law". Fromm at the time became strongly involved in Zionism, under the influence of the religious Zionist rabbi Nehemia Anton Nobel. He was very active in Jewish Studentenverbindungen and other Zionist organisations. But he soon turned away from Zionism, saying that it conflicted with his ideal of a "universalist Messianism and Humanism".During the mid-1920s, he trained to become a psychoanalyst through Frieda Reichmann's psychoanalytic sanatorium in Heidelberg. They married in 1926, but separated shortly after and divorced in 1942. He began his own clinical practice in 1927. In 1930 he joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and completed his psychoanalytical training. After the Nazi takeover of power in Germany, Fromm moved first to Geneva and then, in 1934, to Columbia University in New York. Together with Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan, Fromm belongs to a Neo-Freudian school of psychoanalytical thought. Horney and Fromm each had a marked influence on the other's thought, with Horney illuminating some aspects of psychoanalysis for Fromm and the latter elucidating sociology for Horney. Their relationship ended in the late 1930s. After leaving Columbia, Fromm helped form the New York branch of the Washington School of Psychiatry in 1943, and in 1946 co-founded the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He was on the faculty of Bennington College from 1941 to 1949, and taught courses at the New School for Social Research in New York from 1941 to 1959. When Fromm moved to Mexico City in 1949, he became a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and established a psychoanalytic section at the medical school there. Meanwhile, he taught as a professor of psychology at Michigan State University from 1957 to 1961 and as an adjunct professor of psychology at the graduate division of Arts and Sciences at New York University after 1962. He taught at UNAM until his retirement, in 1965, and at the Mexican Society of Psychoanalysis (SMP) until 1974. In 1974 he moved from Mexico City to Muralto, Switzerland, and died at his home in 1980, five days before his eightieth birthday. All the while, Fromm maintained his own clinical practice and published a series of books. Fromm was reportedly an atheist but described his position as "nontheistic mysticism". Psychological theory Beginning with his first seminal work of 1941, Escape from Freedom (known in Britain as The Fear of Freedom), Fromm's writings were notable as much for their social and political commentary as for their philosophical and psychological underpinnings. Indeed, Escape from Freedom is viewed as one of the founding works of political psychology. His second important work, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics, first published in 1947, continued and enriched the ideas of Escape from Freedom. Taken together, these books outlined Fromm's theory of human character, which was a natural outgrowth of Fromm's theory of human nature. Fromm's most popular book was The Art of Loving, an international bestseller first published in 1956, which recapitulated and complemented the theoretical principles of human nature found in Escape from Freedom and Man for Himself—principles which were revisited in many of Fromm's other major works. Central to Fromm's world view was his interpretation of the Talmud and Hasidism. He began studying Talmud as a young man under Rabbi J. Horowitz and later under Rabbi Salman Baruch Rabinkow, a Chabad Hasid. While working towards his doctorate in sociology at the University of Heidelberg, Fromm studied the Tanya by the founder of Chabad, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Fromm also studied under Nehemia Nobel and Ludwig Krause while studying in Frankfurt. Fromm's grandfather and two great-grandfathers on his father's side were rabbis, and a great uncle on his mother's side was a noted Talmudic scholar. However, Fromm turned away from orthodox Judaism in 1926, towards secular interpretations of scriptural ideals. The cornerstone of Fromm's humanistic philosophy is his interpretation of the biblical story of Adam and Eve's exile from the Garden of Eden. Drawing on his knowledge of the Talmud, Fromm pointed out that being able to distinguish between good and evil is generally considered to be a virtue, but that biblical scholars generally consider Adam and Eve to have sinned by disobeying God and eating from the Tree of Knowledge. However, departing from traditional religious orthodoxy on this, Fromm extolled the virtues of humans taking independent action and using reason to establish moral values rather than adhering to authoritarian moral values. Beyond a simple condemnation of authoritarian value systems, Fromm used the story of Adam and Eve as an allegorical explanation for human biological evolution and existential angst, asserting that when Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, they became aware of themselves as being separate from nature while still being part of it. This is why they felt "naked" and "ashamed": they had evolved into human beings, conscious of themselves, their own mortality, and their powerlessness before the forces of nature and society, and no longer united with the universe as they were in their instinctive, pre-human existence as animals. According to Fromm, the awareness of a disunited human existence is a source of guilt and shame, and the solution to this existential dichotomy is found in the development of one's uniquely human powers of love and reason. However, Fromm distinguished his concept of love from unreflective popular notions as well as Freudian paradoxical love (see the criticism by Marcuse below). Fromm considered love an interpersonal creative capacity rather than an emotion, and he distinguished this creative capacity from what he considered to be various forms of narcissistic neuroses and sado-masochistic tendenci.... Discover the Erich Fromm popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Erich Fromm books.
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Living With It
Bev AisbettThe classic guide for panic attack sufferers now fully revised and updated. Panic attacks approximately 5% of the population will experience them at some time or another. The dre...
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War of the Gods
Erich von DänikenBestselling author and father of the Ancient Alien Theory Erich von Däniken explores what drove ancient humans to build citysized places underground around the world and its connec...
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Erich Fromm y la naturaleza humana
Ramón XirauLa libertad es, según Erich Fromm, uno de los mayores atributos que posee el hombre, y se encuentra vinculada con la perfectibilidad en un sentido semejante al de Ortega y Gasset, ...
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Denial
Jon RaymondA futuristic thriller about climate change by the acclaimed screenwriter of First Cow, Meek’s Cutoff, and HBO’s Mildred Pierce.The year is 2052. Climate change has had a predictabl...
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The Lives of Erich Fromm
Lawrence J. Friedman & Anke M. SchreiberThis “brilliantly comprehensive study” explores the influential thinker’s contributions to psychology, philosophy and more“academic biography at its best” (Kirkus, starred review)....
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Resumen de El Arte de Amar, de Erich Fromm
Alberto SosaLa obra contiene, en ideas precisas, las ideas de Erich Fromm sobre el amor. Fromm dice demostrar "que el amor no es un sentimiento fácil para nadie” y asegura que en una cultura e...
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Mein Freund Erich Fromm
Heinz DuthelDann ist es gewöhnlich schon zu spät. Aber wenigstens in dem Märchen von Des Kaisers Kleidern ja doch, der Kaiser da. Die einzige Frage ist und man glaubt, er habe Kleider an. Aber...
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Flourish
Martin E. P. SeligmanFrom the bestselling author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness comes “a relentlessly optimistic guidebook on finding and securing individual happiness” (Kirkus Reviews).Wi...
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Erich Fromm e os dilemas humanos na sociedade moderna
Alan Ricardo Duarte Pereira, Edmilson Marques, André de Melo Santos, Maria Angélica Peixoto & Nildo VianaErich Fromm é um dos mais renomados psicanalistas de todos os tempos, bem como é considerado um dos principais representantes do chamado freudomarxismo. Fromm, através de sua sínte...
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Erich Fromm als Vordenker
Marko Ferst, Erich Fromm & Burkhard BierhoffAls Psychotherapeut, Sozialwissenschaftler und Philosoph gehört Erich Fromm zu den wegweisenden Gestalten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er ist ein prominenter Diagnostiker der Krisen der w...
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The Book of Burnout
Bev AisbettAustralia's bestselling anxiety and mental health expert, Bev Aisbett, tackles a growing mental health emergency: burnout.Burnout happens when we take on too much, when we think we...
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Die Kunst des Liebens
Erich Fromm & Rainer FunkDie „Kunst des Liebens“ ist das meistgelesene Werk Erich Fromms und weltweit mit ca. 25 Millionen Exemplaren das bestverkaufte Sachbuch aller Zeiten. Seine Botschaft: Dies ist kein...
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Erich Fromm
Annette ThomsonThe twentieth century was defined by farreaching social changes, and this fresh insight into the life and works of Erich Fromm offers a compelling overview of his observations. Fro...
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Die Kunst zu leben
Frank Tallis»Eine packende und fundierte Tour durch Geschichte und Gegenwart der Psychotherapie.« Times Literary SupplementIn diesem spannenden Buch werden die herausragenden Persönlichkeiten...
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Los rostros de Erich Fromm
Lawrence J. FriedmanLawrence Friedman ofrece un retrato de Erich Fromm compuesto desde diversas perspectivas: como pacifista, psicoanalista y humanista, entre otras ofreciendo una nueva y completa bio...
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Psychology of The Unconscious
Carl Gustav JungCarl Jung called this book a commentary on the prodromal stages of schizophrenia. The object of his research was the writings of the American performer Miss Frank Miller. After rea...
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Der kreative Mensch
Erich Fromm''Kreativität'' bezeichnet nach Fromm in erster Linie weder eine Veranlagung noch ein bestimmtes Verhalten, sondern eine Haltung, die einer produktiven Charakterorientierung entspr...
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30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety
Bev AisbettFrom the bestselling anxiety expert, Bev Aisbett, comes a proven and practical workbook to help people manage their anxiety, with simple daily strategies for work and for home. A c...
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The Way of Imagination
Alejandro JodorowskyExplains the theoretical basis behind psychomagic, Jodorowsky’s shamanic healing technique Details the author’s technique of “psychotrance” to access his subconscious mind to disc...
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Erich Fromm para lleer en 30 minutos
Luis BenítezEl amor, el psicoanálisis y el hombre. La vida de Erich Fromm se caracterizó por una aplicación extraordinaria al estudio de las más variadas materias, entre las cuales la religión...
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The art of managing with love, according to Erich Fromm
Claudio Pardo MolinaBOOK DESCRIPTIONThis book delivers practical advice to manage people and teams into a business. Managers constantly have to deal with emotions love and even fear, of the teams they...
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Humanistische Ethik und Erziehung
Erich FrommDer Band ''Humanistische Ethik und Erziehung'' enthält so gut wie alle Publikationen, die Erich Fromm zu Fragen der speziellen Pädagogik verfasst hat. Dass sich Fromm selbst mit Fr...
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Erich Fromm Gesamtausgabe
Erich FrommAlle 250 Bücher und Artikel in deutscher Sprache: was bisher nur in einer zwölfbändigen Druckausgabe oder in 157 einzelnen EBooks zugänglich war, enthält diese Gesamtausgabe in ein...
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Erich Fromm
Luis BenítezLa vida de Erich Fromm se caracterizó por una aplicación extraordinaria al estudio de las más variadas materias, entre las cuales la religión, el marxismo, el psicoanálisis y la so...
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Der Mensch ist kein Ding
Erich FrommDer Beitrag ''Der Mensch ist kein Ding'' wurde von Fromm selbst als einer seiner wichtigsten Aufsätze angesehen (weshalb er immer wieder auf ihn verweist). Es gehe darum, die Psych...
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Erich Fromm Gesamtausgabe
Erich Fromm & Rainer FunkAlle 250 Bücher und Artikel in deutscher Sprache: was bisher nur in einer zwölfbändigen Druckausgabe oder in 157 einzelnen EBooks zugänglich war, enthält diese Gesamtausgabe in ein...
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The Erich Fromm Reader
Erich Fromm“Fromm crossed the boundaries of traditional disciplines to expound his view on the alienation of man in an increasingly technological world.” Newsweek Erich Fromm’s basic idea was...
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Der Wille zum Leben
Erich FrommIm Mittelpunkt von ''Der Wille zum Leben'' steht die Haltung des Menschen dem Tod gegenüber. Die Frage, warum Menschen medizinische Vorsorgeuntersuchungen nur so wenig wahrnehmen, ...