Neurosis and Human Growth : The Struggle Towards Self-Realization - Karen Horney

Neurosis and Human Growth

The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

By: Karen Horney

Paperback | 8 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $35.95

$24.95

31%OFF

Aims to ship in 7 to 10 business days

One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud, Karen Horney pioneered such now familiar concepts as alienation, self-realization, and the idealized image, and she brought to psychoanalysis a new understanding of the importance of culture and environment.

Karen Horney was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1885 and studied at the University of Berlin, receiving her medical degree in 1913. From 1914 to 1918 she studied psychiatry at Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, and from 1918 to 1932 taught at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. She participated in many international congresses, among them the historic discussion of lay analysis, chaired by Sigmund Freud.

Dr. Horney came to the United States in 1932 and for two years was Associate Director of the Psychoanalytic Institute, Chicago. In 1934 she came to New York and was a member of the teaching staff of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute until 1941, when she became one of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and the American Institute for Psychoanalysis.

In Neurosis and Human Growth, Dr. Horney discusses the neurotic process as a special form of the human development, the antithesis of healthy growth. She unfolds the different stages of this situation, describing neurotic claims, the tyranny or inner dictates and the neurotic's solutions for relieving the tensions of conflict in such emotional attitudes as domination, self-effacement, dependency, or resignation. Throughout, she outlines with penetrating insight the forces that work for and against the person's realization of his or her potentialities.

This 40th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface by Stephanie Steinfeld, Ph.D., and Jeffrey Rubin, M.D., of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis.

About the Author

Karen Horney (1885-1952) was one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the twentieth century. Her books include Neurosis and Human Growth, The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, New Ways in Psychoanalysis, Our Inner Conflicts, Self-Analysis, Feminine Psychology, Final Lectures, and, as editor, Are You Considering Psychoanalysis?

More in Psychology

Psychology : The Science of Mind and Behaviour 3rd Edition - Michael W. Passer

RRP $144.95

$119.75

17%
OFF
Thematic Analysis : A Practical Guide to Understanding and Doing - Virginia Braun
Want : Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous - Gillian Anderson

RRP $34.99

$31.75

The Power of Now : A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - Eckhart Tolle
The Untethered Soul : The Journey Beyond Yourself - Michael A. Singer
DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets : 2nd Edition - Marsha M. Linehan
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E Frankl

RRP $16.99

$16.95

Behave : The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert M Sapolsky
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

RRP $26.99

$20.25

25%
OFF