my visual aid for psych 150 report on Karen Horney second semester,AY 2012-2013

1. Psychoanalytic Social Theory
“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.” – K. Horney

2. ψ Born in Blankenese, small town near Hamburg, Germany
as Karen Clementina Theodora Danielsen on September
15, 1885
ψ Only daughter of Berndt (Wackels) Danielsen, sea
captain and Clothilda van Ronzelen Danielsen, who was
18-19 years his junior (also second wife)
ψ Had five siblings: four from Berndt’s first marriage (all
males) and one older brother (also named Berndt)
ψ Felt hostility towards her father and regarded him as
religious hypocrite but greatly favored her mother

3. ψ Felt deprived of affection
because of her father’s
preference of her older
brother, Berndt
ψ She was the acting
housekeeper when her
mother is not around
which included keeping
her brothers’ things
organized.
ψ At age nine, she
developed a crush
towards her brother but
was turned down leading
to her first bout with
depression

4. ψ At 13, she wanted to become a
physician (as well as the rest of
her siblings but she was the
only one who succeeded)
much to his father’s
opposition and society
ψ In 1904, her parents divorced
leaving Karen, 19 and Berndt,
23
ψ In 1906, she entered University
of Freiburg where she met
Oscar Horney, political
science student
ψ In 1909, they married and
stayed in Berlin

5. ψ She became one of the boys because she saw that
being girly would only lead to ridicule
ψ Earned an MD in 1911 in University of Berlin (after
Freiburg and Gottingen)

6. ψ Parents were divorced and
died a year after the other
ψ She gave birth to three
daughters in five years (1910:
Brigitte, 1913: Marianne,
1916: Renate)
ψ Oskar was just like her
father, Berndt, as predicted
by Freud – harsh,
authoritative disciplinarian
ψ She had several love
affairs

7. ψ In 1923, Oskar developed meningitis and lost his job
and forced to live in Berlin
ψ In the same year, Horney's brother died at age forty of
pulmonary infection
ψ In 1926, they separated but did not officially divorce
until 1938

8. ψ In 1913, she began an analysis with Karl Abraham
ψ In 1917, she wrote her first paper on psychoanalysis,
“The Technique of Psychoanalytic Therapy”
ψ In 1919, she began to take in patients at Berlin
Psychoanalytic Clinic and Institute until 1932
ψ In 1932, she became associate director of Chicago
Pychoanalytic Institute
ψ In 1950, she published her most important work,
Neurosis and Human Growth
ψ In 1952, she established Karen Horney Clinic

9. ψ Freud’s ‘penis envy’ and ‘Oedipus complex’ concepts,
instinct-driven people and Freud’s male chauvinism
were the main reasons of Horney’s drifting away

10.  The Neurotic Personality of our Time (1937)
 New Ways in Psychoanalysis (1939)
 Self-Analysis (1942)
 Our Inner Conflicts (1945)
 Are You Considering Psychoanalysis? (1946)
 Neurosis and Human Growth (1950)
 The Collected Works of Karen Horney (1950)
 The Adolescent Diaries of Karen Horney (1980)
 The Unknown Karen Horney: Essays on
Gender, Culture, and Psychoanalysis (2000)

12. Feist, Jess and Feist, Gregory. Theories of Personality. 7th ed.
McGraw-Hill. International Edition 2010.
Boeree, Dr. C. George. Karen Horney. nd. np. Web. 29 Dec
2012. http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/horney.html.
Karen Horney. nd. goodtherapy.org. Web. 30 Dec 2012.
http://www.goodtherapy.org/famous-psychologists/karen-
horney.html.
Langenderfer, Gretchen. Karen Horney. May 2009. np. Web.
29 Dec 2012.
http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/hor
ney.htm.
Odds, Madness and Triumph: The Life of Karen Horney. nd.
np. Web. 2 Jan 2013.
http://www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/horney2.html.

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