Dialogue with Erich Fromm, Richard I. Evans

Dialogue with Erich Fromm, Richard I. Evans 

The reader of Dialogue with Erich Fromm is privileged to overhear a series of brilliant and provocative conversations between one of the world's most distinguished psychoanalysts and an astute student of his work. The conversations cumulatively provide a systematic presentation of the thought and personality of Erich Fromm that could otherwise be gained only from a thorough and informed reading of his many books. The dialogues were edited from tape-recorded conversations at Fromm's home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. They cover Fromm's theories of the productive and nonproductive personalities and the methods people use to defend themselves against unsatisfactory reality. They contrast his own techniques of treatment in humanistic psychoanalysis with such techniques as group psychotherapy and the use of drugs. Fromm's views on alienation, free will versus determinism, existentialism, humanism versus mechanism, and the role of science in psychology are explored. His relationship with Freud and the psychoanalytic movement and the areas of agreement and disagreement between them are recorded in historical perspective. Dialogue with Erich Fromm was developed from tape recordings and films sponsored by the National Science Foundation. It will be followed by similar books about the work of Erik Erikson, B.F. Skinner, Gordon Allport, Henry Murray, Gardner Murphy, and Raymond Cattell. Lucidly presented and absorbing to read, it offers an unusual opportunity to learn a great deal with pleasure and without pain.

Details

• Hardcover with dust jacket
• ISBN: 9110003908
• Condition: Very Good  
  
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Jacket Design by Miriam Woods