Erika Fromm (née Oppenheimer, December 23, 1909[1] – May 26, 2003) was a German-American psychologist and co-founder of hypnoanalysis.
[3] She decided on an academic career and graduated in 1933 with a PhD from the University of Frankfurt, where she studied with Max Wertheimer, the father of Gestalt theory.
[2] As she matured as a clinical physician, theorist, and researcher, she turned her attention to the nature of human intuition, creativity, dreams, and hypnosis.
Erika Fromm studied hypnosis as a path to the unconscious, similar to Freud's dream analysis.
Fromm campaigned against the American Psychoanalytic Association's stance that psychoanalysis required a medical degree and co-founded the Psychologists Interested in the Study of Psychoanalysis which evolved into APA's Division 39.