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.
Author: | Thomas C. Oden |
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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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