TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Escape from Evidence? Popper, Social Science, and Psychoanalytic Social Theory JF - Dialogue, Canadian Philosophical Association, Vol. XLVI (2007), pp. 761-780. Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - The Sociology, Biography, and Politics of Alienation JF - The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol. 42 (2014), pp. 292–297. Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - The coming triumph of the psychosocial perspective: lessons from the rise, fall and revival of Erich Fromm JF - Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 12( No. 1-2, 2019), pp. 9–22, Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mergler, Iga A1 - McLaughlin, Neil A1 - Traore, Ismael T1 - Fromm, Erich JF - International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Volume 9, 2015. N2 - This article presents an analytic history of the legacy of Erich Fromm, the German psychoanalyst, social psychologist, critical thinker, best-selling author, and an early member of the Frankfurt School. Fromm’s intellectual insights flowed from aspects of his life and optimal marginality in relationship to various intellectual social movements and his complex relationship with the Frankfurt School. But Fromm also became a >forgotten intellectual< for some of the same biographical and sociological reasons. Ideas and scholarly influence can rise again as well as decline, so with his contemporary relevance in mind, we will discuss some of the underappreciated contributions Fromm made to the study of authoritarianism, race, and ethnicity as well as his influence on theories of gender and the practice of public sociology. There is new interest in Fromm’s work, suggesting that he might find again a place in the history and contemporary scholarship in social psychology, sociology, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Review Durkin, K.: The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 19 / 2015, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 72-74. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e18/2015j Y1 - 2015 VL - e18/2015j ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - Introduction JF - R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 9-29. Y1 - 2015 UR - http://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/2535/CATALOGSSID/8c52oh5o77t4cs3r5m2r2722j4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Introduction JF - R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 9-29. Y1 - 2015 UR - http://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/2535/CATALOGSSID/8c52oh5o77t4cs3r5m2r2722j4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maccoby, Michael A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Sociopsychoanalysis and Radical Humanism: A Fromm-Bourdieu Synthesis JF - K. Durkin and J. Braune (Eds.), Erich Fromm's Critical Theory. Hope, Humanism, and the Future, New York (Bloomsbury) 2020, pp. 108-127. Y1 - 2020 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - The Jordan Peterson Phenomena: Why Fromm’s ideas and public intellectual vision is essential for responding to reactionary populism JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 25 / 2021, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 074-089. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e25/2021g Y1 - 2021 VL - e25/2021g ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - How Political Was the Democratic Socialist Fromm? JF - J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 255-284. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Review Frie, R.: Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the Holocaust JF - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 2025, No. 61; https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.70024 Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology, Bristol (Bristol University Press) 2023, 296 pp. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - How Erich Fromm Can Help Address the Jordan Peterson Problem in Psychoanalysis JF - Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Routledge, Vol. 44 (No. 1, 2024), pp. 053-070. N2 - The current political climate is marked by polarization, which presents new difficulties for psychoanalysis. Erich Fromm, as a Freudian theorist and clinician, is uniquely positioned to address these issues. Fromm is a politically radical thinker who can help psychoanalysis think about society and social injustice beyond the clinical context while avoiding the dangers of excessively orthodox left-wing thinking that risks taking the field away from its core mission. Fromm can help psychoanalysis avoid what we are calling the >Peterson problem,< which is partly the result of provocative and extreme ideas in institutions and psychoanalytic publications that create reputational problems for the field. The >Peterson problem< brings new attention to the political bias of left-liberal authoritarians inside the profession, who focus on changing society rather than healing individuals and neglect audiences outside the liberal university and highly educated classes and thus create space for polarizing figures like psychologist Jordan Peterson to fill the gap. Peterson’s fame and influence serves as a lightning rod for the wider critique of left leaning political and cultural currents in psychoanalysis. Fromm can act as a role model as well as provide the intellectual resources for responding to these challenges. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chancer, Lynn S. A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Why Fromm now? Envisioning a saner society JF - Sociological Forum - Wiley Online Library, Vol. 2024, pp. 1-12. - https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13035 N2 - Erich Fromm has long been a forgotten intellectual despite his status as a major critical theorist and sociologist in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s but his work is being returned to with new enthusiasm because of events in the world, developments within sociology and new interest in psychosocial analysis dealing with emotions. This paper theorizes Fromm's return to scholarly influence now, offering analysis of both his reputational fate in light of the rise of global Trumpism and right wing-populism and the value of the tools his unique merger of Freud, Marx and sociology offers in the contemporary moment. Y1 - 2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Answering populist attacks on psychosocial ideas: why Fromm matters more than Marcuse JF - Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000032 N2 - The reactionary American intellectual Christopher Rufo has made German critical theorist Herbert Marcuse the centre of his campaign to purge the American academy of radical ideas and movements. Marcuse’s ideas have significant influence in contemporary psychosocial scholarship, so attacks on his work may have negative consequences for psychosocial scholars. Rufo’s critique of the influence of Marcuse’s ideas is mostly exaggerated but it contains elements of truth. This article will outline ways in which some of Marcuse’s ideas are echoed in elements of the contemporary left/liberal intellectual and political orthodoxy. We revisit the Fromm/Marcuse debate from the 1950s, and offer an analysis of why Rufo might have picked Marcuse for attack when Fromm might well have been a viable target, as Fromm was in the 1980s when he was famously scapegoated by Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind (1987). I then offer an analysis of how Erich Fromm’s alternative psychosocial radicalism can help better defend the psychosocial perspective in mass politics than Marcuse’s framework. Fromm’s framework also offer a theoretical foundation for radical psychosocial studies that can help our field defend itself against the new McCarthyism of Rufo and his allies on the global right who are likely to attack radical psychosocial perspectives in the near future. Y1 - 2024 ER -