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1
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Humanity’s separation from the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation

A

basic anxiety

2
Q

Become separate from nature and yet have the capacity to be aware of themselves as isolated beings

A

human dilemma

3
Q

The human dilemma can only be solved through …

A

fulfilling our human needs

4
Q

Is the only relatedness need that can solve our basic human dilemma.

A

love

5
Q

Love comprises…

A

care, responsibility, respect and knowledge

6
Q

Urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence into the realm of purposefulness and freedom

A

Transcendence

7
Q

To kill for reasons other than survival

A

Malignant aggression

8
Q

The need to establish roots and to feel at home again in the world

A

Rootedneess

9
Q

An awareness of ourselves as a separate person

A

Sense of identity

10
Q

A roadmap to make way through the world

A

Frame of orientation

11
Q

Results from humans being torn from nature yet remaining in the world with the same physical limitations as other animals.

A

The Burden of Freedom

12
Q

3 Mechanisms of Escape

A
  • authoritarianism
  • destructiveness
  • conformity
13
Q

Tendency to give up one’s independence and to unite with a powerful partner

A

Authoritarianism

14
Q

Aimed at doing away with other people

A

Destructiveness

15
Q

Surrending one’s individuality in order to meet the wishes of others

A

Conformity

16
Q

The human dilemma can only be solved through ___.

A

Positive freedom

17
Q

Relatively permanent way of relating to people and things; a substitute for instincts

A

Character orientations

18
Q

People relate to the world through ____ and ____.

A

Assimilation and socialization

19
Q

Source of all good lies outside themselves and only way to relate to the world is to receive things including love, knowledge and possessions

A

Receptive character

20
Q

Source of all good lies outside of themselves also but they aggressively take what they want rather than passively receiving it

A

Exploitative character

21
Q

Seek to save what they already obtained; live in the past

A

Hoarding character

22
Q

See themselves as commodities and value themselves against the criterion of their ability to sell themselves; fewer positive traits than other orientations

A

Marketing character

23
Q

What comprises a productive orientation?

A

work, love and thought

24
Q

A belief that everything belonging to one’s self is of great value and anything belonging to others is worthless

A

Malignant narcissism

25
Q

An extreme independence on one’s mother or mother surrogate

A

Incestuous symbiosis

26
Q

Malignant narcissism: preoccupation with one’s health

A

Hypochondriasis

27
Q

Malignant narcissism: preoccupation with guilt

A

Moral hypochondriasis

28
Q

Possession of all 3 personality disorders

A

Syndrome of decay

29
Q

Goal of Fromm’s therapy

A

to work toward satisfaction of the basic human needs; shared communication in which therapist is simply a human being rather than a scientist

30
Q

Most common character orientation

A

Nonproductive Receptive type

31
Q

2nd most common character orientation

A

productive hoarding type

32
Q

3rd most common character orientation

A

nonproductive exploitative type