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Karen Horney  

September 16th, 1885- December 4th, 1952

Langenderfer, Gretchen. (1999). "Karen Horney." Psychology History. Retrived from                              http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/horney.htm>.

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Notable professional dates for the psychologist:

  • Received medical degree at schools, Freiburg, Gottingen, and Berlin

  • Introduced two new theories The Neurotic Personality of our Time (1937), and New Ways of Psychoanalysis (1939)

    • These books are important because they argue the fact of the environmental and social conditions instead of the drives described by Freud instinctual and biological, and how those factors help determine our individual personalities.

  • 1941- Expelled from New York Psychoanalytic.

    • Horney was expelled from the New York Psychoanalytic institute because she refused to go along with the rules that the Freudian theory established.

  • 1941- She organized a new group called Association of Advancement of Psychoanalysis and founded the new Association American Journal of Psychoanalysis

    • With making the new association, was able to teacher into a deeper about her views that the neuroses were caused by disturbances in interpersonal relationships.

  • 1945- Wrote Our Inner Conflicts

  • 1950- Wrote Neurosis and Human Growth

    • These dates all lead to the contribution of Karen Horney leaving the Freudianism belief and  developing what most people called it, the Neo- Freudianism belief.

 

Langenderfer, Gretchen. (1999). "Karen Horney." Psychology History. Retrived from                                http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/horney.htm>.

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Description of the socio/politico backdrop of the time period:

     Many forces affected Karen Horney during the 19th Century. During this time, women did not have many rights and were being oppressed. However, Horney overcame social restrictions and beriers and made sure her voice was heard. Despite all opposing forces, she remained optimistic of the world especially for women and their rights. Her theory of womb envy is contrasted to the views of Freud in which men envied features of the opposite gender. Around this time period, contraceptives started to become common and more accepted and were moving into a positive direction.

1919- Federal woman suffrage amendment is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate

1920- The 19th Amendment is passed, giving women the right to vote

1936- The federal law is modified and birth control information no longer is considered obscene

timeline of events regarding women's rights

These dates are important because they provided insight with women in the world and allowed them to voice their opinions in science and in society. The laws regard women and their importance in the world by getting noticed and thought of as important people.

 

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline2.html  

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Major contributions of research/experimentation:

  • Horney’s major contributions were ideals itself with asserting herself and changing the way of thinking about neurosis on person identities. With these thoughts, people saw that this was a major turn in direction that the Freudian theory was going in. After being expelled from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and writing her countless books and papers, Karen Horney brought out her new ideas and were combined into a new approach called Psychoanalytic Therapy. Karen began to help patients identify specific causes of anxiety and being able to relate anxieties to psychoanalysis and tp also be able to psychoanalyze themselves.  

Katlin Graham 

 

Key terms/concepts associated with psychologist:

  • Gender Envy - when one sex wants what the other sex has

  • Neo-freudianism - a group of loosely linked American theorists that were influenced by Sigmund Freud, but extended his theories.

  • Neurosis - functional disorder  in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, and compulsive acts without objective evidence of disease

  • Psychoanalysis - A method of mind investigation, especially the unconscious mind

     

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School of Thought/Perspective:

  • Personality psychology  

  • Humanism

  • Karen Horney was a neo-freudian meaning she wanted to expand the ideas of Sigmund Freud. Such as the argument of gender envy, women having penis envy and also the repression feelings, inner conflicts, she believed that people have to the power to grown in their selves.  

     

Karen Horney. (2014). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 01:04, Nov 17, 2014, from                        http://www.biography.com/people/karen-horney-9344153.

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Stance on nature vs. nurture:

People that agree with the nature side say that whatever DNA and genotype we are born with will determine who we are and also our personality traits. People that agree with the nurture side agree that we are born with “a blank state” and we learn about life while acquiring different attributes as we learn about different experiences and interactions in the world. Karen Horney believed that cultural forces were major determinants of human behavior. She was a strong supporter of “nurture.” For example, her ideas of neurosis tried to help explain how people internally dealt with problems and conflicts determined and influnced by external factors (ex: other people). 

 

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Karen Horney. (2014). Retrieved from http://homepages.rpi.edu/~verwyc/HORNEYOH.html

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Unit most likely to cover his/her contributions:

The unit that is most likely to cover her contributions is unit 14, social psychology. The unit explains and describes how human behavior is determined and molded by external factors especially in relation to other individuals or groups of people. Unit 10, personaility and unit 8, motivation and emotion may also include specific contributions of Karen Horney such as neurosis and how the affected the behavior and actions of people. Karen Horney believed strongly in nurture and the influence of people on behavior. She spoke primarily on the inner struggles and how people delt with problems from society and relating to social factors. 

 

Langenderfer, Gretchen. (1999). "Karen Horney." Psychology History. Retrived from                                http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/horney.htm>.

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