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Fromm, Erich. You Shall Be as Gods.
Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Premier Book, Fawcett Publications, 1966.
Fromm, Erich. The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays.
Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday and Co. 1963.
Fromm, Erich. The Crisis of Psychoanalysis—Essays on Freud, Marx and Social Psychology.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970.
ERICH FROMM is a twentieth century thinker with a sweeping, synthesizing mind. The general direction of his interests was established in his early religious studies, and he has continued to develop as a psychologist, and psychoanalyst, into an interrationally influential clinician and writer. His range of preoccupations includes the exegitic study of the Old Testament, the Prophets and the Oral Tradition (Talmud), and the humanistic philosophers, Marx, Freud, and Sullivan. He make sharp distinctions between his synthesis and those of others such as Marcuse.
His deepest beliefs can be summed up in the statement, "God is not a thing, nor is man." He regards his philosophic bent as "non-theologic mysticism" or "radical humanism." Dr. Fromm studied the Old Testament intensively with great rabbinical