Introduction to Karen Horney
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Karen Horney's psychoanalytical theories began enjoying a revival of attention with the publication of 'Feminine Psychology' in 1967, and many professionals are now using her theories. Horney, who founded the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and was dean until she died in 1952, was ahead of her colleagues in terms of innovations and contributions to the field of psychoanalysis. Many of her theories had generated controversy because she challenged Sigmund Freud's ideas about feminine development, female masochism, and penis envy.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 1996
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Karen Horney's vision of the self
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Karen Horney's theory of the self involves a real or "possible self," which relates to the inherent potentiality of an unfixed entity, an "impossible self," which is an unattainable idealized self, a "despised self" that relates to human sense of inadequacy, and "actual self," a combination of any or all of these selves at a given moment. Psychological health is attained through growth, struggle, self-actualization and acceptance.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 1999
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Karen Horney: a bibliography of her writings
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A comprehensive chronological list of the writings of Karen Horney, a noted psychoanalyst, is presented. Writings based on her lectures at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis are also included.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 2001
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