Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
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Fromm mapped the psychology of modern alienation across mid-century America, blending Freud with Marx as a Frankfurt School theorist who fled Nazi Germany and cofounded the William Alanson White Institute in New York.
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Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
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