What does a mentally healthy person look like? For Erich Fromm, it was a matter of knowing it when you see it.

Born on March 23, 1900, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Erich Fromm was raised as an Orthodox Jew by, in his description, “highly neurotic” parents. Fromm did not hesitate to confess that he himself ...

Born on March 23, 1900, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Erich Fromm was raised as an Orthodox Jew by, in his description, “highly neurotic” parents. Fromm did not hesitate to confess that he himself ...

“Not he who has much is rich,” the mid-century German social psychologist Erich Fromm once supposedly said, “but he who gives much.” Populists on both the Left and the Right have railed against the ...

BEYOND THE CHAINS OF ILLUSION (182 pp.)—Erich Fromm—Trident Press ($3.95). Erich Fromm is a world-famous psychoanalyst whose interests of late have had little to do with psychoanalysis. On lecture ...

As a young psychology student, I remember reading Erich Fromm’s evocative book, The Art of Loving, and thinking it was pretty good. I was particularly struck by Fromm’s suggestion that it was ...