The Clinical Erich Fromm: Personal Accounts and Papers on Therapeutic Technique. (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies)

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 Content: Contents Foreword Introduction PART I ERICH FROMM ON THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE Being Centrally Related to the Patient Factors Leading to Patient's Change in Analytic Treatment PART II RELATIONSHIP AS DIRECT MEETING Direct Meeting From Couch to Chair Conveying Hope to the Patient Directness in Therapy PART III ERICH FROMM'S THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE IN THE MIRROR OF SUPERVISION "There Is Nothing Polite in Anybody's Unconscious" "What Have You Learned about Yourself from Your Patient?" "What Is this Patient Really After?" "Now, Look here ..."