20/11/2025
Does psychology truly improve wellbeing? In this 1960s video, the social psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm questions whether the establishments of psychology and psychiatry are truly concerned with wellbeing, or merely with making people adjust to an ‘insane’ system.
Does psychology truly improve wellbeing? Or merely help us adjust to an ‘insane’ system? Erich Fromm on mental health in 1960