Educated at the University of Frankfurt am Main and the University of Heidelberg where he received his PhD in Sociology in 1922. During the early 1920s, he studied to become a psychoanalyst, Following the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s, Fromm moved to Geneva, then to America in 1934 where he joined Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan at Columbia University. In 1943 he helped to form the Washington School of Psychiatry. From 1941 to 1949, he was a member of the faculty at Bennington College and from 1941 to 1959, taught at the New School for Social Research in New York. In 1949, he helped to establish a psychoanalytical section at the medical school at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where he was a professor. From 1957 to 1961 he was a professor of psycholgy at Michigan State University. After 1962, he served as professor of psycholgy at the graduate division of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He continued to teach at UNAM until his retirement in 1965. He taught at the Mexican Society of Psychoanalysis (SMP) until 1974. That year, he moved to Switzerland. Over the years, Fromm became a critic of Freudian psychology. His works include Zweite Abteilung: Erheburgen (1936), The Fear of Freedom (1941), Psychoanalysis and Religion (1950), The Art of Loving (1956), Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis (1960), Socialist Humanism (1965), To Have or To Be (1976) and For the Love of Life (1986 Posthumous). |
