By Karen Horney
One of the main unique psychoanalysts after Freud, Karen Horney pioneered such now established thoughts as alienation, self-realization, and the idealized picture, and he or she dropped at psychoanalysis a brand new knowing of the significance of tradition and environment.
Karen Horney used to be born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1885 and studied on the college of Berlin, receiving her scientific measure in 1913. From 1914 to 1918 she studied psychiatry at Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, and from 1918 to 1932 taught on the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. She participated in lots of foreign congresses, between them the historical dialogue of lay research, chaired by means of Sigmund Freud.
Dr. Horney got here to the U.S. in 1932 and for 2 years used to be affiliate Director of the Psychoanalytic Institute, Chicago. In 1934 she got here to ny and used to be a member of the educating employees of the recent York Psychoanalytic Institute until eventually 1941, whilst she grew to become one of many founders of the organization for the development of Psychoanalysis and the yank Institute for Psychoanalysis.
In Neurosis and Human Growth, Dr. Horney discusses the neurotic procedure as a unique kind of the human improvement, the antithesis of fit progress. She unfolds the various phases of this example, describing neurotic claims, the tyranny or internal dictates and the neurotic's strategies for alleviating the tensions of clash in such emotional attitudes as domination, self-effacement, dependency, or resignation. all through, she outlines with penetrating perception the forces that paintings for and opposed to the person's awareness of his or her potentialities.
This fortieth Anniversary variation encompasses a new preface via Stephanie Steinfeld, Ph.D., and Jeffrey Rubin, M.D., of the yankee Institute for Psychoanalysis.
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If he is liable to repress his criticism by a facile enthusiasm, he will react the same way in analysis. Thus far there is nothing particular in the situation, nothing which doesn't happen in the same way in relation to a teacher or to a maid, to a husband or to any authority. These tendencies account for the exceptional emotional bond in the analysis. Analysis, as well as surgery, requires knowledge and experience in a specific technique. Realizing that every child suffers from some conflicts and that such conflicts may lead to a neurosis, some people claim that every child ought to be analyzed, a conclusion which seems premature, since a certain amount of conflict, if it is not excessive, may be indispensable for further development.
It certainly has its psychologically good side, and it has its very dangerous side, but I am afraid the danger might be immensely increased if analytical knowledge enables the priest to dig up every secret and hidden impulse — particularly since he is in authority and therefore has the power to awaken feelings of guilt. There is a certain justification for that attitude in so far as a bad analysis usually doesn't kill anyone, while a bad operation might do so. If he is liable to repress his criticism by a facile enthusiasm, he will react the same way in analysis.
When a woman who is married to a callous husband will obtain more consideration from him by virtue of her suffering. In the further course of associations the lie invariably is revealed. In some cases where the physician has not hit the mark, the patient's criticism may be awakened which reveals that the patient knows better, and after a few associations will bring about the solution to the riddle. He is able to do this only if he has no resistances within himself against any insights. However, some patients over fifty who suffered from depression have been successfully analyzed.