The clinical Erich Fromm : personal accounts and papers on therapeutic technique / edited by Rainer Funk.

Format:

Book

Series:

Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 9.

Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980.

Fromm, Erich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Rainer Funk

Being Centrally Related to the Patient / Erich Fromm

Factors Leading to Patient’s Change in Analytic Treatment / Erich Fromm

Direct Meeting / Rainer Funk

From Couch to Chair / Marianne Horney Eckhardt

Awakening the Patient / David E. Schecter

Conveying Hope to the Patient / Dale H. Ortmeyer

Directness in Therapy / Harold B. Davis

“There Is Nothing Polite in Anybody’s Unconscious” / Ruth M. Lesser

“What Have You Learned about Yourself from Your Patient?” / Robert U. Akeret

“What Is this Patient Really After?” / George D. Goldman

“Now, Look here...” / Arthur H. Feiner

Elation and Fortification / Anna Gourevitch

Psychoanalysis: An Adventure in Learning to Think Critically / Ralph M. Crowley

Words are Ways / Edward S. Tauber

His Main Interest: The Human Passions / Jay S. Kwawer

When You Hear the Word, the Reality Is Lost / Bernard Landis

Fromm Didn’t Want to Be a Frommian / Michael Maccoby

His Way to Clarity and Humaneness / Jorge Silva García

His Deeply Inspirational Presence and Thoughtfulness / Salvador Millán and Sonia Gojman de Millán

A Crucial Encounter / Gérard D. Khoury

Fromm’s Genius Was in His Actual Presence / Leonard C. Feldstein

References

About the Contributors

Acknowledgements

Erich Fromm’s Writings on Psychoanalytic “Technique” / Rainer Funk.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-176).

ISBN:

1-282-59447-8

9786612594472

90-420-2890-4

1-4416-1444-3

OCLC:

423401112

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042028906 DOI