Prologue: Erich Fromm’s Relevance for Our Troubled World

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Mauricio Cortina

Mauricio Cortina, M.D., is a faculty member of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and The New Washington School of Psychiatry and the Instituto Mexicano de Socio-psicoanalisis A.C. in Mexico City. He is a psychiatric fellow of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis and winner of the 2019 Bowlby and Ainsworth Award. He edited with Michael Maccoby A Prophetic Analyst: Erich Fromm’s Contributions to Psychoanalysis (1996), and Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society (2022). He edited with Mario Marrone Attachment Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process (2003) and Apego y psicoterapia: Un paradigma revolucionario (2017). He has published more than 30 chapters and articles on the work of Erich Fromm, attachment theory and human evolution.