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Non-fiction book first published in the US in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as The Fear of Freedom in UK.

Non-fiction book first published in the US in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as The Fear of Freedom in UK. A book by the Frankfurt-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, exploring humanity's shifting relationship with freedom, with particular regard to the personal consequences of its absence and special emphasis on the psychosocial conditions that facilitated the rise of Nazism.