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1 review
Karen Horney

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Diverse Directions
Horney was one of the earliest pioneers to repudiate the theoretical framework of Freud, and work within the framework of feminist and cultural understanding. This book is the first rejection of the Freudian view. Horney's theory evolved throughout her life from the early works like this and "The Neurotic Personality of Our Time" and "Our Inner Conflicts" to the final book,"Neurosis and Human ...

Final Lectures

2 reviews
Karen Horney

W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Better Horneys....
Karen Horney's work is essential reading for anyone suffering from an excess of narcissistic pride. This work, though, is a curiosity for those who are familiar with her groundbreaking work, found to much better effect in NEUROSIS AND HUMAN GROWTH among others. Her final lectures give a certain texture to her as a character, and they are poignant as they come at the end of her life. But ...

Feminine Psychology

1 review
Karen Horney

W W Norton & Co Ltd, 1967

antidote to freud
in this book karen horney shows her usual insight and clear writing style as she helps to undo some of the damage done by freud's narrow view of the psychology of the female mind

The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

3 reviews
M.D. Karen Horney

W.W. Norton and Company Inc. NY, 1937

Eye opener
Although the importance of the work of Karen Horney is sometimes downplayed, this is one of the best books I have read in my life. Far from incomprehensible language and theories that seem much more far from reality that the ones they are supposed to apply to, this book is an easy read for everyone, and I could understand simple mechanisms that therapists take years to reveal. Karen Horney ...

Self Analysis

5 reviews
Karen Horney

W W Norton & Co Ltd, 1968

Encouragement for those seeking to know the Self
All of us suffer from ineffective beliefs that Karen Horney calls "neurotic trends". Almost alone in the psychiatric community she encourages the seeker of self truth that there is hope in doing it your self. Her clear enumeration of the complexes that plague us and their consequences assist one in first discovering the mind's conditioned reactions and then gradually eliminating the ineffective ...

Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis

7 reviews
Karen Horney

W W Norton & Co Ltd, 1945

Insightful, Brilliant, Simply Correct
Karen Horney is one of the greatest of the Post-Freudian psychoanalysts. Horney's concepts of the root causes of neurosis, a basic anxiety, a sense of lurking hypocrisy , an idealized self image, conflicting impulses, are ingeniously insightful and, I have found, correct. Her paradigm is very useful for understanding human behavior; not only the behavior of those who would be diagnosed with ...

Neurosis and Human Growth

14 reviews
Karen Horney

Norton, 1981

Give This Woman At Least 5 Stars, If Not a Nobel Prize
I respect the opinion of the two-star reviewer, but I can only guess that this person is either too young, or simply not crazy enough, to appreciate how Dr. Horney "nailed" the essential problem of one's vital energies being disastrously diverted to the service of the idealized self. A welcome oasis this is for those thoughtful souls who are sick and tired of suffering and want to get on with the ...

The Therapeutic Process: Essays and Lectures

1 review
Karen Horney

Yale University Press, 1999

Quintessential Lectures on Psychoanalytical Technique
Grounded in her theoretical framework of the human need to create a 'glorified self' to rise above one's basic anxiety, these eleven posthumously published lectures by Karen Horney are penetratingly powerful and incisive. As with many of Horney's writings, the reader will find himself (or herself), both as therapist and patient, resonating deeply with Horney's diverse descriptions of the ...