What Is Mental Health?

  • Posting a definition of health from the positive viewpoint of >freedom for< life, investigates the question, What is the implicit norm of mental health which lies hidden under its pathological analytic? Considers the aspects of theory and therapy of Freud's infantile sexuality, Adler's inferiority-superiority strivings, Rank's emphasis upon the will, Horney's present self-understanding, and FROMM's concept of individual freedom, in attempting to establish for reliable psychotherapeutic norms for health.

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Author:Thomas C. Oden
Parent Title (English):Journal of Pastoral Care, New York, Vol. 14 (1960), pp. 193-202.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1960
Release Date:2014/01/28
Format:PDF-scan to download
IdNo:Oden_Th_C_1960
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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