Karen Horney

Basic Conflict

100

What are the 3 basic conflicts?

1.Moving Toward People. 2.Moving Against People 3.Moving Away From People Feist, J., & Feist, G. J. (2009). Theories of personality. (7th ed. ed., p. 172-174). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

200

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

Needs that move you away from others. Feist, J., & Feist, G. J. (2009). Theories of personality. (7th ed. ed., p. 172). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

300

They are motivated by a strong need to exploit others and to use them for their own benefit. They seldom admit their mistakes and are compulsively driven to appear perfect, powerful, and superior.

Needs that move you against others. Feist, J., & Feist, G. J. (2009). Theories of personality. (7th ed. ed., p. 172). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

400

They desperately strive for affection and approval of others, or they seek a powerful partner who will take responsibility for their lives.

Needs that move you towards others. Feist, J., & Feist, G. J. (2009). Theories of personality. (7th ed. ed., p. 172). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

Neurotic Needs

100

How many categories of Neurotic needs did Horney tentatively identified.

Ten.

200

_______ and _______ are perhaps the two greatest neurotic needs.

Power and affection Feist, J., & Feist, G. J. (2009). Theories of personality. (7th ed. ed., p. 170). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

300

Horney clustered the 10 neurotic needs into three broad coping strategies.

Compliance, Aggression and Withdrawal

400

By striving relentlessly for perfection, neurotics receive “proof ” of their self-esteem and personal superiority. They dread making mistakes and having personal flaws, and they desperately attempt to hide their weaknesses from others.

perfection and unassailability. Feist, J., & Feist, G. J. (2009). Theories of personality. (7th ed. ed., p. 170). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

500

The need for power is usually combined with the needs for prestige and possession and manifests itself as the need to control others and to avoid feelings of weakness or stupidity.

The neurotic need for power

Feminine Psychology

100

Horney insisted that __________ ____________ is at the core of men's need to subjugate women and women’s wish to humiliate men.

Basic Anxiety

200

According to Horney, what two out of three basic neurotic trends usually begin in childhood?

Neurotic need for Affection Neurotic need for Aggression

300

What is the child’s main goal when a child is clingy to one parent and expresses jealousy towards the other?

Security

400

What is the pathological belief between men and women that many women possess?

Men are superior to women

500

According to Horney’s beliefs, psychic differences with men and women are not the result of anatomy but rather of _______________ and ______________ expectations.

Cultural and social.