Unlike Freud, Horney does not regard neurosis as rooted in instinct. In her words, her theory is constructive because "it allows us for the first time to tackle and resolve neurotic hopelessness. . . . Neurotic conflicts cannot be...

In this collection of papers, many previously unavailable in English, she brings to the subject of femininity her acute clinical observations and a rigorous testing of both her own hypotheses and those formulated by Freud. The topics she...

"Neurose und menschliches Wachstum: Das Ringen um Selbstverwirklichung" von Karen Horney ist ein bedeutendes Werk in der Psychoanalyse, das sich mit den psychologischen Mechanismen und Hindernissen auseinandersetzt, die Individuen daran...

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...