Because Sigmund Freud invented psychoanalysis, there was no old couchman around to analyze him and get him started on the right track—so he analyzed himself. Now Erich Fromm, one of the most ...

Freud thought every life was blighted by the childhood Oedipus complex; Fromm sees nothing worse in childhood than a healthy rebellion against parental authority.

Sociologist-turned-psychologist Erich Fromm built his theoretical foundation on trying to understand how and why his country's people would elevate the Nazis to power and previously-friendly ...