Karen Horn (Horney Karen)

(1885-1952), American psychologist. Born in Hamburg (Germany), September 16, 1885. Degree of Doctor of Medicine has received in the University of Freiburg in 1913, taught at the Berlin psychoanalytic institute (1920-1932). Moved to the United States in 1932, became one of the leaders of the Chicago Institute of psychoanalytic. In 1941 founded the American Institute of psychoanalytic. Unlike Freud, . linking the origin of neuroses in childhood sexuality, . Horney insisted on the need to know 'existing in the present unconscious tendency, . their functions and relationship to other, . relevant at the moment, . trends, . - Pulses, . fears, . protective mechanisms',
. According to Horney, all neuroses caused by 'basic anxiety', rooted in the lack of love and respect in childhood. A child who never felt the genuine warmth and affection, will develop 'reaction of hatred' - a suspicious or hostile attitude to parents and everyone around. Because the baby depends on adults, it is replaced by hostility and is experienced as anxiety. If a more favorable experience is not formed, the child was not only the remains in an alarming state, but will project its concern to the outside world. Among the major works of Karen Horney - Neurotic personality of our time (The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, . 1937), . New Ways in Psychoanalysis (New Ways in Psychoanalysis, . 1939), . Self-examination (Self-Analysis, . 1942), . Our internal conflicts (Our Inner Conflicts, . 1945), . Neuroses and Human Development (Neurosis and Human Growth, . 1950),
. Horney died in New York on December 4, 1952.