Einführung in H. J. Schultz „Psychologie für Nichtpsychologen“

by Erich Fromm, Rainer Funk (Editor)

Mit „Psychologie für Nichtpsychologen“ versucht Erich Fromm, psychologische Laien in die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse und Aussagen der Psychoanalyse einzuführen. Der ursprünglich für den Rundfunk geschriebene Beitrag vermittelt auf gut nachvollziehbare Weise psychoanalytisches Basiswissen. Darüber hinaus spiegelt er Fromms fast 50-jährige Praxis als Psychoanalytiker wider. Die Leser erfahren, wie Fromm die verschiedenen psychologischen Theorien einschätzt und welchen Stellenwert er der Psychoanalyse als therapeutischer Methode und als Hilfe für die eigene Lebensgestaltung beimisst.

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 13, 2015

About the author

Erich Fromm, Ph.D. (Sociology, University of Heidelberg, 1922) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

Fromm explored the interaction between psychology and society, and held various professorships in psychology in the U.S. and Mexico in the mid-20th century.

Fromm's theory is a rather unique blend of Freud and Marx. Freud, of course, emphasized the unconscious, biological drives, repression, and so on. In other words, Freud postulated that our characters were determined by biology. Marx, on the other hand, saw people as determined by their society, and most especially by their economic systems.