Despite his plans, Erich Fromm published almost nothing on psychoanalytic therapy during his lifetime. However, as his pupil Rainer Funk writes, everyone who was analysed by Fromm felt his "relentlessness as a truth-seeker and critical guide, but also his extraordinary capacity for empathy, closeness and immediacy in relation to others". In keeping with the fact that Fromm did not found a new therapeutic school, his writings on psychoanalysis do not report on any techniques. Rather, the texts presented here, which are arranged by Rainer Funk, inform us about Fromm's relationship with the mentally suffering people of our time and his ability to perceive the basic problems of the individual. In his conception, the analyst learns to deal primarily with himself and is his own closest patient, so that the patient in a sense becomes his analyst. The set of texts presented here is a transcription of recordings of Fromm's lectures and interviews, which thus have the character of the spoken word and characterize Erich Fromm as a person in an important way.
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