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Psychodynamic Theories
Fromm: Humanistic Psychoanalysis
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1. List Fromm’s basic assumptions about personality.

2. Describe the existential (human) needs identified by Fromm.

3. Discuss Fromm’s notion of the burden of freedom and how people attempt to struggle with that burden.

4. Explain what Fromm means by positive freedom.

5. Describe Fromm’s nonproductive character orientations.

6. Discuss Fromm’s views on the productive orientation.

7. List and describe Fromm’s three severe personality disorders.

8. Describe Fromm’s research methods.

9. Discuss Fromm’s psychohistorical study of Hitler.