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

• Superior document: Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Funk, Rainer,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"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.

Table of 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.