Feminine Psychology Mature Theory Karen Horney Clinic

2. Feminine Psychology
Mature Theory
Karen Horney Clinic

3. Human Psychology
• Psychology is the science of behavior and mind including conscious and
unconscious phenomena, as well as thought. As a social science it aims to
understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and
researching specific cases.
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4. Feminine psychology
• Feminine psychology is an approach to psychology that focuses on issues
concerning gender, female human identity, and the issues that women face
throughout their lives especially social, economic, and political issues.

5. Cont.
• A famous Psychologist Doctor Horney discussed frigidity, the problem of
the monogamous ideal, maternal conflicts, the distrust between the
sexes, feminine masochism, and the neurotic need for love.
• Horney have new ideas on feminine psychology and have some
differences with Freud and that give emergence of her own views on
theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

6. Karen Horney Clinic
• The Karen Horney Clinic was founded in 1955 in honor of Karen Horney ,
a pioneer in the field of psychoanalysis. Since its formation, the Clinic has
expanded its services to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse
community. In doing so, it has evolved into a vital center for mental health
treatment, training and research.

8. Aims
The Clinic's current missions are the same as those when it was founded;
• Low-cost psychoanalytic services
• Low-cost psychotherapeutic services
• Training and opportunities for advanced mental health professionals.
So these are the few aims of clinic that are still in practice.

9. Mature Theory
She argued that,
• “Individuals cope with the anxiety produced by feeling unsafe, unloved,
and unvalued by disowning their real feelings and developing elaborate
strategies of defense”

10. Cont.
• She concentrated on the interpersonal defenses of moving toward, against,
and away from other people and the neurotic solutions of compliance,
aggression and detachment to which they give rise.
• It created a heightened awareness of cultural factors in mental disturbance
and inspired studies of culture from a psychoanalytic perspective.