Erich Fromm
Social psychologist and psychoanalyst
Erich Fromm was a German-American psychoanalyst and social psychologist who explored how psychology and society influence each other.
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Born 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany Died 1980
Influenced by Baruch Spinoza, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud
About Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on 23 March 1900, and died on 18 March 1980. He was also a sociologist, a humanistic philosopher and a democratic socialist, and he had ties to the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Because he was a Jew from Germany, he escaped Nazi rule and made his home in the United States. He helped found the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City, and he worked as a psychology professor in the US and Mexico around the middle of the twentieth century. He earned a doctorate in sociology at the University of Heidelberg in 1922. His ideas drew together the thinking of Freud and Marx. Escape from Freedom and The Art of Loving are both in the BookBits catalog.