The Clinical Erich Fromm: Personal Accounts and Papers on Therapeutic Technique. (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies): 9
Author(s): Rainer Funk
- Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
- Publication Date: 5 May 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 194 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789042025738
- ISBN-13: 9042025735
Book Description
Fromm (1900-80) is known chiefly as a philosopher and social critic, but here mental health professionals, some of whom worked with him, introduce him as a practicing psychoanalyst and describe his therapeutic technique. Among their concerns are what therapeutic goals he set himself, how he shaped the therapeutic relationship, what pathways to the unconscious he favored, what role he saw for the psychoanalyst’s own personality, and how much truth and directness he thought his patients could tolerate. The anthology is not indexed. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Rainer Funk’s edited book is immensely valuable because it presents Fromm’s clinical ideas and clinical style through the voice of his supervisees, students, colleagues, and friends. Funk’s book provides a timely and important addition to our understanding of Fromm. It fills a gap in the secondary literature by demonstrating the way in which Fromm was an especially skillful and talented clinician, in addition to being a writer of great renown. By offering first-hand accounts of their work with Fromm, the contributors help readers to grasp how the “clinical Erich Fromm” worked in his psychoanalytic practice and how he conceptualized clinical case material. In the process, Funk’s book deepens our appreciation of Fromm as a thinker, clinician, and a human being. Most importantly, this book illustrates the wealth of Fromm’s approach, and picks it up at the moment when psychoanalytic psychotherapy is confronting a challenge to its whole way of thinking and practicing. It reveals how Fromm’s therapeutic approach, which emphasizes direct encounter with the patient and values the contextualization of experience, remains directly relevant for the changing culture of contemporary psychotherapy.” – Roger Frie, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University and Faculty, William Alanson White Institute
About the Author
Rainer Funk was Erich Fromm’s last personal assistant and is now the sole literary executor and editor of Fromm’s writings. In addition, he established the Fromm Archive and co-founded the International Erich Fromm Society. He is a practicing psychoanalyst in Tuebingen, Germany.
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