When Fromm moved to Mexico City in 1949, he became a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and established a psychoanalytic section at the medical school there.
Kada se Fromm preselio u Mexico City 1950., postao je profesorom na UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico) i osnovao psihoanalitički odjel u medicinskoj školi.