Politics
The Sane Society
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 1990, 384pp, 1st ed.
The Sane Society is a continuation and extension of the brilliant psychiatric concepts Erich Fromm first formulated in Escape from Freedom; it is also, in many ways, an answer to Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. Fromm examines man’s escape into overconformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society: modern humanity has, he maintains, been alienated from the world of their own creation.
Table of contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements, Introduction by David Ingleby
- 1.Are we Sane?
- 2.Can a Society be Sick?-The Pathology of Normalcy
- 3.The Human Situation - The Key to Humanistic Psychoanalysis
- 4.Mental Health and Society
- 5.Man in Capitalistic Society
- 6.Various Other Diagnoses
- 7.Various Answers
- 8.Roads to Sanity
- 9.Summary-Conclusion