Art of Listening

Although Erich Fromm intended to publish his work as a practising psychotherapist, these plans were never realised in his lifetime. This volume fulfils his wish.

Not intended as a textbook about psychoanalytic therapy, these reflections provide welcome new information about Fromm the therapist and the way he dealt with the psychological suffering of his patients. As Fromm envisioned, each chapter is structured to capture the informality and intimacy of his psychoanalytic work so that readers get a new and different sense of Fromm's humanism, honesty and insight.

These talks and seminars, given by Fromm between 1964 and his death in 1980, deal with the issues between analyst and analysand that go to the heart of the psychoanalytic process. For Fromm, the analyst is his or her own next patient, as the patient becomes his or her analyst.

Art of Listening reveals the depth and breadth of Fromm's work and thinking, offering profound insights into the dynamics of the therapeutic process.