Description: Karen Horney was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1885 and studied at the University of Berlin, receiving her medical degree in 1913. From 1914 to 1918 she studied psychiatry at Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, and from 1918 to 1932 taught at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. She participated in many international congresses, among them the historic discussion of lay analysis, chaired by Sigmund Freud. Dr. Horney came to the United States in 1932 and for two years was Associate Director of the Psychoanalytic Institute, Chicago. In 1934 she came to New York and was a member of the teaching staff of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute until 1941, when she became one of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. In Neurosis and Human Growth, Dr. Horney discusses the neurotic process as a special form of the human development, the antithesis of healthy growth. She unfolds the different stages of this situation, describing neurotic claims, the tyranny or inner dictates and the neurotic's solutions for relieving the tensions of conflict in such emotional attitudes as domination, self-effacement, dependency, or resignation. Throughout, she outlines with penetrating insight the forces that work for and against the person's realization of his or her potentialities. This 40th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface by Stephanie Steinfeld, Ph. D., and Jeffrey Rubin, M.D., of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis.
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Review: One of those rare books that EVERYONE should read. Regardless of whether you feel it applies to YOU - it will apply to people you know, love, care about, run into and work with. It will give you an understanding of the prisons that narcissitic, competitive, arrogant, withdrawn, shy etc people build - why they behave the way they do. And so, we start to feel compassion for them, whilst insulating ourselves against the negative aspects of their personalities. This is an incredible achievement; the distilled wisdom of 50 years of careful, compassionate, considered analysis of the human condition and how it leads many of us into (seemingly) unstoppable pain and down dark, bleak paths. Dr Horney was a legitimate equal to Freud and Jung. Her insight feels superhuman at points. Her writing style is succinct, graceful, direct and very, very carefully considered. She was a true professional. The only bad point is that she died before I was born, so I cannot thank her in person.
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Rating: 3
Review: Just write in biro on the back of your hand "this is not about me, this is not about me, this is not about me" Heavy but definitely worth it.
Description: Neurosis and Human Growth : Paperback : WW Norton & Co : 9780393307757 : 0393307751 : 11 Sep 1991 : One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud, Karen Horney pioneered such now familiar concepts as alienation, self-realization, and the idealized image, and she brought to psychoanalysis a new understanding of the importance of culture and environment. The Book Depository Neurosis and Human Growth by Karen Horney - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
