The Art of Listening - Hardcover

Fromm, Erich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826406548 ISBN 13: 9780826406545

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 1994

Synopsis

A collection of posthumously published writings sheds light on the author's method of psychoanalysis

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Erich Fromm (1900-1980) studied sociology and psychoanalysis. In 1933, he emigrated as a member of the Frankfurt School of social thinkers to the United States, moved to Mexico in 1950, and spent his twilight years between 1974 and 1980 in Switzerland. His books Fear of Freedom (1941) and The Art of Loving (1956) made him famous. Other well-known books are Marx's Concept of Man, Beyond the Chains of Illusion, and The Essential Fromm.

From Kirkus Reviews:

While the coming of August is enough to send most psychoanalysts fleeing the needs of their patients for the beach, it appears that not even death can keep the wizened Fromm (On Being Human, 1993, etc.) from dispensing wisdom. Fromm gained renown less for his writings about clinical psychology than for his more contemplative works that fused the insights of psychoanalysis with those of existentialist philosophy to ask--and occasionally answer- -the Big Questions traditionally left to priests, rabbis, and barkeeps. But this posthumous collection focuses on the relationship between analyst and analysand, and its goal is much more modest than that of some of his other books. Fromm is concerned here, it seems, not with building a better world but with building a better shrink. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0826406548
• ISBN 13: 9780826406545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Funk Rainer