Erika Fromm

Erika Fromm ( born December 23, 1910 in Frankfurt am Main, † 26 May 2003 in Chicago), native Oppenheimer, was a psychologist and co-founder of Hypnoanalyse.

Life

Erika Fromm grew up in Frankfurt am Main. As the daughter of a doctor, she developed an early interest in psychoanalysis and the writings of Sigmund Freud. She decided on a legal career. At the University of Frankfurt, she studied with Max Wertheimer, the father of Gestalt theory. In 1933, she received a doctorate in phil.

In the following four years she worked in the Netherlands as a research associate and director of a research laboratory. In 1936, she became engaged to Paul Fromm, a wine merchant, whom she later married. 1938, when the Nazis intensified the persecution of Jews, the couple immigrated to the United States. From 1939 to 1940, Fromm was a research assistant in the department of psychiatry at the University of Chicago. From 1943 to 1948, she launched a program of rehabilitation of war veterans. The faculty of the University, she joined only in 1961.

Erika Fromm was also editor of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and co-editor of The Bulletin of the British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis. 1972 to 1973 she was president of the range for psychological hypnosis by the American Psychological Association; 1971-1974 President of the American Board of Psychological Hypnosis; 1975-1977 President of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

Performance

In her early works Fromm asked some of Sigmund Freud's discoveries in question and was looking for ways to hypnosis in a more effective way to use to help people, as in the path of psychoanalysis, which she looked at rather as a treatment for the rich. As matured clinic doctor, theorist and researcher, she turned to the nature of human intuition, creativity, dreams and hypnosis.

Erika Fromm studied hypnosis, similar to Freud 's dream, as the path to the unconscious. When used correctly, hypnosis may be more effective and faster when working on problems help as psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and hypnosis were previously characterized by mutual distrust, despite Freud's suggestion to reach the unconscious mind with hypnosis.

Writings (selection )

  • Erika Fromm & Ronald E. Shor (Eds.). Hypnosis: Developments in research and new perspectives. 2nd ed New Brunswick: AldineTransaction, 2009, ISBN 978-0-20236-262-5.
  • Stephen Kahn & Erika Fromm ( Eds.). Changes in the therapist. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001, ISBN 978-0-80582-382-0.
  • Erika Fromm & Michael R. Nash (Eds.). Contemporary hypnosis research. New York: Guilford Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-89862-893-7.
  • Erika Fromm & Stephen Kahn. Self -hypnosis: the Chicago paradigm. New York: Guilford Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-89862-341-3.
  • Daniel P. Brown & Erika Fromm. Hypnosis and behavioral medicine. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1987, ISBN 978-0-89859-925-1.
  • Daniel P. Brown & Erika Fromm. Hypnotherapy and hypnoanalysis. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1986, ISBN 978-0-89859-783-7.
  • Thomas M. French & Erika Fromm. Dream interpretation: a new approach. Madison, Conn.:. International Universities Press, 1986 ISBN 0-82361-435-2.
  • Erika Fromm & Lenore Dumas Hartman. Intelligence, a dynamic approach. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1955.
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