Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
Erich FrommWhy should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich FrommSociety, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.
Erich Fromm