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Author photo. Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate

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Psychologist and philosopher Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany on March 23, 1900. He received a Ph.D in sociology from the University of Heidelberg in 1922 and finished his psychoanalytical training at the Psychoanalytical Institute in Berlin in 1930. He started his own clinical practice and joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. In 1934, he moved to New York and became a professor at Columbia University. In 1950, he moved to Mexico City and became a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, where he created a psychoanalytic section at the medical school. He retired from there in 1965 and moved to Muralto, Switzerland in 1974. Throughout his life, Fromm maintained a clinical practice and wrote books. His writings were notable for both their social and political commentary and their philosophical and psychological underpinnings. He became known for linking human personality types with socioeconomic and political structures. His most popular book, The Art of Loving, was first published in 1956 and became an international bestseller. He died on March 18, 1980. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Art of Loving… (more)
The Art of Loving 4,040 copies, 45 reviews
Escape from Freedom 2,258 copies, 23 reviews
To Have or to Be? 1,496 copies, 18 reviews
The Sane Society 864 copies, 12 reviews
Marx's Concept of Man 494 copies, 3 reviews
Psychoanalysis and Religion 458 copies, 2 reviews
Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis 374 copies, 6 reviews
The Heart of Man 354 copies, 3 reviews
The Art of Being 341 copies, 4 reviews
The Dogma of Christ 215 copies, 2 reviews
The Art of Listening 128 copies, 1 review
On Being Human 62 copies, 1 review
The essential Fromm 45 copies, 1 review
La familia 5 copies
Psychoanalyse 3 copies
Texte alese 2 copies
Register 2 copies
Marx e Freud 2 copies
Fromm 1 copy
Religion 1 copy
1984 (Afterword, some editions) 79,056 copies, 1,244 reviews
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (some editions) 3,014 copies, 62 reviews
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing (Foreword, some editions) 896 copies, 13 reviews
Early Writings (Foreword, some editions) 590 copies, 2 reviews
Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy (Foreword, some editions) 371 copies, 1 review
Celebration of Awareness (Introduction, some editions) 233 copies
The Vision of Dhamma: Buddhist Writings of Nyanaponika Thera (Foreword, some editions) 61 copies, 1 review
Summerhill: for & Against. (Contributor) 61 copies, 1 review
Range of Philosophy (Contributor) 49 copies
New Knowledge in Human Values (Contributor) 29 copies

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