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Revisiting Fromm’s The Sane Society at the present time: Some implications for mental health and mental health education when seen with a PCP eye.

Warren, B.

Keywords:
Erich Fromm, mental health, education, democracy, PCP

Abstract:
This paper discusses the notion of mental health from the perspective of the social context in which such a notion has to exist, and has to be fostered or otherwise, by that key social activity in a democracy that is education. In particular, it considers this topic by way of reviewing a thoroughgoing analysis of ‘society and sanity’ presented over a half century ago by Erich Fromm in his The Sane Society. The links to and an implications for a PCP understanding of mental health in the light of the ideas of Fromm and some later thinkers are discussed.