Karen Horney

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built on the assumption that social and cultural conditions, especially childhood experiences, are largely responsible for shaping personality.

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psychoanalytical social theory

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if parents do not satisfy the child’s needs for safety and satisfaction, the child develops feelings of

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basic hostility

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repressed hostility then leads to profound feelings of insecurity and a vague sense of apprehension.

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basic anxiety

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defenses against basic anxiety:

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affection
submissiveness
power/prestige/possession
withdrawal

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strategy that does not always lead to authentic love

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affection

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neurotics may submit themselves

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submissiveness

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tendency to dominate others.

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power

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a protection against humiliation and is expressed as a tendency to humiliate others.

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prestige

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acts as a buffer against destitution and poverty and manifests itself as a tendency to deprive others.

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possession

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neurotics frequently protect themselves against basic anxiety either by developing an independence from others or by becoming emotionally detached from them.

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withdrawal

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different neurotic needs:

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for affection and approval / for a powerful partner / to restrict one’s life within narrow borders / for power and control / to exploit others / for social recognition or prestige / for personal admiration / for ambition and personal achievement / for self-sufficiency and independence / for perfection and unassailability

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They try to live up to the expectations of others

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neurotic need for affection and approval

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This need includes an overvaluation of love and dread of being alone or deserted.

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neurotic need for a powerful partner

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They downgrade their own abilities and dread making demands on others.

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neurotic need to restrict one’s life within narrow borders

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need to control others and to avoid feelings of weakness or stupidity.

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neurotic need for power and control

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evaluate others on the basis of how they can be used or exploited,

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neurotic need to exploit others

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to be important or to attract attention to themselves.

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neurotic need for social recognition or prestige

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Their inflated self esteem must be continually fed by admiration and approval of others.

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neurotic need for personal admiration

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They must defeat other people in order to confirm their superiority.

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neurotic need for ambition and personal achievement

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have a strong need to move away from people

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neurotic need for self-sufficiency and independence

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They dread making mistakes and having personal flaws and they desperately attempt to hide their weakness from others.

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neurotic need for perfection and unassailability

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solve basic conflict, but unfortunately, these solutions are essentially non productive or neurotic.

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neurotic trends

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it refers to a neurotic need to protect oneself against feelings and helplessness

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moving towards people

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neurotic needs that are moving towards people:

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for affection and approval / for a powerful partner

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exploit others and to use them for their own benefit.

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moving against people

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neurotic needs that are moving against people:

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to restrict one’s life within narrow borders / for power and control / to exploit others / for social recognition or prestige / for personal admiration

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This strategy is an expression or needs of privacy, independence, and self sufficiency.

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moving away from people

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neurotic needs that are moving away from people:

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for ambition and personal achievement / for self-sufficiency and independence / for perfection and unassailability

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an extravagantly positive view of themselves that exists only in their personal belief system.

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the idealized self - image

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They proclaim they are special and entitled

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the neurotic search for glory

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achieve perfection by erecting a complex set of “should” and “should nots”

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need for perfection

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being the most saintly or most charitable person in the community.

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neurotic ambition

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To inflict suffering on people

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drive toward vindictive triumph

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grow out of normal needs and wishes / neurotics become indignant, bewildered and unable to comprehend why others have not granted their claims.

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neurotic claims

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based on a spurious image of the idealized self.

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neurotic pride

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their real self does not match insatiable demands of their idealized view of self.

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self - hatred

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types of self - hatred

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relentless demand on the self / merciless self - accusation / self - contempt / self frustration / self - torment / self - destructive and impulses

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push themselves towards perfection

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relentless demand on the self

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constantly berate themselves

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merciless self - accusation

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ridiculing oneself

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self - contempt

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actualize an inflates self - image

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self - frustration

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masochistic satisfaction

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self - torment

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expressions of physical self destruction

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self - destructive and impulses