TY - JOUR A1 - Kimmelman, George T1 - Moral maturity and psychology JF - American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol.18, No. 3 (1948), pp. 552-554. [Online ISSN 1939-0025] [doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1948.tb05117.x] N2 - Comments on the book >Man for Himself< by Erich Fromm […] Hose, who enjoyed the provocative manipulation of psychological concepts in >Escape from Freedom< no doubt will be further rewarded by Fromm's continued exploration of contemporary character-structure, but they will find little, to enlighten them on ethical theory and practice. Fromm's book is an ambitious attempt to synthesize psychoanalysis and ethics by grounding the norms of the latter in the integrated personality. The ethical agent is characterized by a >productive orientation< which permits him to realize his constructive potentialities in thought, work, and love. One of the defects of the book is the absence of any specific societal program which can affect the integrated personality. Another defect lies in a dereliction which the author shares, with all other humanists and naturalists who have dealt with ethics; i.e., the lack of emphasis upon the implicit moral character of the sciences themselves. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) Y1 - 1948 ER -