Clinical Erich Fromm

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.

“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

• Roger FRIE: Foreword Rainer FUNK: IntroductionErich Fromm on Therapeutic PracticeErich FROMM: Being Centrally Related to the PatientErich FROMM: Factors Leading to Patient’s Change in Analytic Treatment Relationship as Direct MeetingRainer FUNK: Direct Meeting Marianne HORNEY ECKARDT: From Couch to Chair David E. SCHECTER: Awakening the Patient Dale H. ORTMEYER: Conveying Hope to the Patient Harold B. DAVIS: Directness in Therapy Erich Fromm’s Therapeutic Practice in the Mirror of SupervisionRuth M. LESSER: “There Is Nothing Polite in Anybody’s Unconscious” Robert U. AKERET: “What Have You Learned about Yourself from Your Patient?” George D. GOLDMAN: “What Is this Patient Really After?” Arthur H. FEINER: “Now, Look here...” Reminiscences of Erich Fromm—Psychoanalyst and PersonAnna GOUREVITCH: Elation and Fortification Ralph M. CROWLEY: Psychoanalysis: An Adventure in Learning to Think Critically Edward S. TAUBER: Words are Ways Jay S. KWAWER: His Main Interest: The Human Passions Bernard LANDIS: When You Hear the Word, the Reality Is Lost Michael MACCOBY: Fromm Didn’t Want to Be a Frommian Jorge Silva GARCÍA: His Way to Clarity and Humaneness Salvador MILLÁN and Sonia GOJMAN DE MILLÁN: His Deeply Inspirational Presence and Thoughtfulness Gérard D. KHOURY: A Crucial Encounter Leonard C. FELDSTEIN: Fromm’s Genius Was in His Actual Presence References About the Contributors Acknowledgements Erich Fromm’s Writings on Psychoanalytic “Technique”