Basic Anxiety & Basic Conflict
According to Horney, the feeling of being isolated and helpless in a potentially hostile world is called:
What is basic anxiety ?
Detached types manifest all the traits and needs associated with:
What is moving away from people ?
For Horney, neurotics are people who:
What is have identified with their idealized selves?
Horney calls the moral imperatives that relentlessly drive neurotics:
What is the tyranny of the shoulds?
In Horney’s theory, the compulsive need to restrict the expression of emotions is called:
What is excessive self-control?
One of the key elements of basic anxiety is:
What is helplessness?
Individuals who move away from people would be likely to endorse the slogan:
What is "live free or die"?
In Horney’s theory, the potential within a person for constructive growth is called the:
What is real self?
According to Horney, neurotic strivings for power serve as a protection against feelings of:
What is helplessness?
In Horney’s view, the defense mechanism in which painful experiences are denied or ignored because they are at variance with the idealized self is called:
What is blind spots?
Horney calls the three contradictory strivings (moving toward, against, and away from people) in all neurotics the:
What is basic conflict?
Individuals who move against people would be likely to endorse the slogan:
What is "Never give a sucker an even break"?
For Horney, fantasies of neurotic individuals in which they visualize themselves as perfect beings are called:
What is idealized images?
Neurotics who have to be right all the time have strong, neurotic needs for:
What is power?
In Horney’s opinion, the defense mechanism which involves the ridicule of moral values is called:
What is cynicism?
When children experience basic anxiety, they feel:
What is isolated and helplessness?
According to Horney, aggressive types believed that others are:
What is hostile?
Horney’s case study of Clare: Clare used the façade of modesty to make herself:
What is feel safe?
Individuals who are overly sensitive to any criticism from others have a strong, neurotic need for:
What is affection and approval?
If Tony explains his defeat in a tennis match by falsely claiming that the net was not at the height requirement, the defense mechanism he is using is:
What is rationalization ?
In Horney’s theory, neurosis is primarily the result of:
What is disturbed interpersonal relationships ?
Neurotic individuals with strong needs for perfection and unassailability are called:
What is aggressive types ?
In Horney’s case study of Clare, Horney’s diagnosis of Clare was that she:
What is had a compulsive modesty?
People who feel it is imperative to read best sellers and see the latest plays tend to have strong, neurotic needs for:
What is prestige?
A person professes love for all humans but excludes a group he sees as inferior. Horney would say this person is using which defense mechanism:
What is compartmentalization?