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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
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The Clinical Erich Fromm
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies 9 Editor Jon Mills
Editorial Advisory Board Neil Altman Howard Bacal Alan Bass John Beebe Martin Bergmann Christopher Bollas Mark Bracher Marcia Cavell Nancy J. Chodorow Walter A. Davis Peter Dews Muriel Dimen Michael Eigen Irene Fast Bruce Fink Peter Fonagy Leo Goldberger James Grotstein Keith Haartman
Associate Editors Roger Frie Gerald J. Gargiulo
Otto F. Kernberg Robert Langs Joseph Lichtenberg Nancy McWilliams Jean Baker Miller Thomas Ogden Owen Renik Joseph Reppen William J. Richardson Peter L. Rudnytsky Martin A. Schulman David Livingstone Smith Donnel Stern Frank Summers M. Guy Thompson Wilfried Ver Eecke Robert S. Wallerstein Otto Weininger Brent Willock Robert Maxwell Young
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies (CPS) is an international scholarly book series devoted to all aspects of psychoanalytic inquiry in theoretical, philosophical, applied, and clinical psychoanalysis. Its aims are broadly academic, interdisciplinary, and pluralistic, emphasizing secularism and tolerance across the psychoanalytic domain. CPS aims to promote open and inclusive dialogue among the humanities and the social-behavioral sciences including such disciplines as philosophy, anthropology, history, literature, religion, cultural studies, sociology, feminism, gender studies, political thought, moral psychology, art, drama, and film, biography, law, economics, biology, and cognitive-neuroscience.
The Clinical Erich Fromm Personal Accounts and Papers on Therapeutic Technique
Edited by Rainer Funk
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009
Cover photo: © DVA Cover Design: Studio Pollmann The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 978-90-420-2573-8 © Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009 Printed in the Netherlands
Contents Roger Frie: Foreword Rainer Funk: Introduction
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PART I: ERICH FROMM ON THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE Erich Fromm: Being Centrally Related to the Patient Erich Fromm: Factors Leading to Patient’s Change in Analytic Treatment
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PART II: RELATIONSHIP AS DIRECT MEETING Rainer 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
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PART III: ERICH FROMM’S THER