Psychotherapy + Methods of Investigation

Question 1

Fromm believed that patients come to therapy seeking satisfaction of their
basic human needs—relatedness, transcendence, rootedness, a sense of identity, and a frame of orientation. Therefore, therapy should be built on a personal relationship
between therapist and patient.

Answer 1

Psychotherapy

Question 2

Fromm (1963) believed that therapists should not try to be too scientific in
understanding a patient. Only with the attitude of relatedness can another person be
truly understood.

Answer 2

Psychotherapy

Question 3

In general, Fromm and Maccoby (1970) reported a remarkable similarity between character orientations in this Mexican village and the theoretical orientations Fromm had suggested some years earlier.

Answer 3

Social Character in a Mexican Village

Question 4

Insisting that people not see Hitler as inhuman, Fromm (1973) concluded his
psychohistory with these words: “Any analysis that would distort Hitler’s picture by
depriving him of his humanity would only intensify the tendency to be blind to the
potential Hitlers unless they wear horns”

Answer 4

A Psychohistorical Study of Hitler