Sigmund Freud was born in Monrovia on May 6,1856. He entered the University of Vienna in 1873 at the age of 17. He finished his degree in 1881. Freud died in England in 1939. He was an active therapist, theorist and writer to the very end. ( Ewen 19-20) Erich Fromm was born four years after Freud in 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany. Unlike Freud, Fromm had no medical training in his background. He received his PHD from the University of Heidelberg and …showed first 75 words of 1289 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1289 total…healthy growth and development. He did not like the idea of so many different religions preaching different beliefs. He preferred to emphasize the commonness of all humanity. Freud regarded religious beliefs to be extremely harmful to the individual and society. “He viewed religion as a regression to infancy, when a helpless baby needed protection of an all-powerful parent.”( Ewen 60) He hated religious ideas such as life continues after death and that all good is r