Before Erich Fromm there was 'one-person psychology.' Then, through a respectful, ambitious, but uncompromising revision of Freudian theory, Fromm helped lead us to our current relational perspective that considers the complexities of a 'two-person' interpersonal, contextual view of human functioning and therapeutic treatment. This book succinctly summarizes Fromm's main contributions to psychoanalysis, assessing their strengths and weaknesses and considering their utility in light of contemporary developments in psychoanalysis and related fields. It shows the vitality and relevance of Fromm's ideas for today's clinical and social problems.
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Despite his international prominence as a social theorist and cultural critic, Erich Fromm's enormous influence on the development of psychoanalytic theory and practice over the past several decades has operated behind the scenes. Cortina and Maccoby have collected a wide array of contributions on Fromm the clinician. Fromm the prophet, Fromm the Theorist, Fromm the provocateur, and Fromm the teacher that convey the manifold ways in which Erich Fromm instructed, goaded, and inspired so many of the major currents in psychoanalytic thinking in recent decades. (Stephen A. Mitchell )
With this volume and the recent resurgence of publications by and about Erich Fromm, we can hear a voice of impassioned reason once again. Fromm spoke of the centrality of the relationship in the analytic process and of the importance of the complete human context for the meaning of personal development and psychotherapeutic change. Maccoby and Cortina have gathered an impressive and articulate array of articles and scholars who help us to understand Fromm anew, and who gave him his rightful place as a forerunner of modern relational theory. Their own chapter integrates this vision and introduces the novice to this important body of work. A Prophetic Analyst is recommended for scholars and questioning clinicians alike. It will help us all to understand the centrality of the relationship in human development and the importance of the social context for everything that we experience. (David E. Scharff )
With this volume and the recent resurgence of publications by and about Erich Fromm, we can hear a voice of impassioned reason once again. Fromm spoke of the centrality of the relationship in the analytic process and of the importance of the complete human context for the meaning of personal development and psychotherapeutic change. Maccoby and Cortina have gathered an impressive and articulate array of articles and scholars who help us to understand Fromm anew, and who gave him his rightful place as a forerunner of modern relational theory. Their own chapter integrates this vision and introduces the novice to this important body of work. A Prophetic Analyst is recommended for scholars and questioning clinicians alike. It will help us all to understand the centrality of the relationship in human development and the importance of the social context for everything that we experience. (David E. Scharff )
About the Author
Mauricio Cortina, M.D., is assistant professor of psychiatry at George Washington University and a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry and Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. Michael Maccoby, Ph.D., is president of the Maccoby Group of management consultants and director of the Project on Technology, Work and Character, which continues to study work and human development.
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This review is from: A Prophetic Analyst: Erich Fromm's Contributions to Psychoanalysis (The Library of Object Relations) (Hardcover)
Mauricio Cortina and Michael Maccoby give us a rare gift in A PROPHETIC ANALYST: ERICH FROMM'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO PSYCHOANALYSIS, by editing the work of eighteen contributors presented at the Erich Fromm International Symposium held in Washington, D.C. in March 1994. Erich Fromm was read by millions and was highly influencial in the 1940s and 50s, but fell into neglect in his later years, in spite of the fact that some of his important work, SOCIAL CHARACTER IN A MEXICAN VILLAGE (co-authored with Micheal Maccoby) and THE ANATOMY OF HUMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS was published in the 1970s.
Erich Fromm greatly admired Freud, yet was courageously critical of many aspects of his theory. The contributors to this book take a similar attitude toward Fromm, admiring his major contributions to psychoanalysis without shrinking from pointing out his short-comings.
This is a scholarly work, but (also in Fromm's own tradition) one that is highly readable. I recommend it to anyone who has found Fromm a source of understanding or inspiration in the past. For the clinician, it offers rare insight into Fromm's contributions to clinical psychoanalysis. It deepens understanding of his work as a sociologist and philosopher. For the merely curious about Fromm as psychoanalyst or social thinker, this book could be a good beginning.
Robert Duckles, Ph.D.
bobduck@aol.com
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