Horney: Psychoanalytic Social Theory h.

ambition and personal

achievement
 Built on the assumption that social and i. self-sufficiency and
cultural conditions are largely independence
responsible for shaping personality j. perfection and unassailability
 Social rather than biological
 “man is ruled not by pleasure principle 2. Neurotic trends- People who
alone but two guiding principles: combat basic anxiety by adopting
1. Safety one of the three fundamental styles
2. Satisfaction of relating to others:
 Neuroses are the person’s “attempt to a. Moving toward (compliant)
find paths through a wilderness full of b. Moving against (aggressive)
unknown dangers. c. Moving away (detachment)
 Competitiveness and Basic Hostility
spawns from feelings of isolation  Neurotics compulsive behavior
 People who do not have their needs for generates a basic intrapsychic conflict,
love and affection satisfied during in a form of either an:
childhood develop basic hostility 1. idealized self-image - idealized self
towards their parents, suffering from image is expressed as:
basic anxiety a. Neurotic search for glory
 Basic anxiety itself is not a neuroses,  The need for perfection
but it s the “nutritive soil out of which a  Neurotic ambition
definite neurosis may develop at any  The drive toward vindictive
time” triumph
 Compulsion is a prominent b. Neurotic claims
characteristic of all neurotic drives. c. Neurotic pride
 Defenses against basic anxiety
1. Affection 2. self-hatred
2. Submissiveness a. Relentless demands on the self
3. Power b. Merciless self-accusation
4. Withdrawal c. Self-contempt
 Compulsive drives: d. Self frustration
1. Neurotic needs e. Self-torment
a. affection and approval f. Self destructive actions and
b. a powerful partner impulse
c. restrict one’s life within narrow  Feminine Psychology
borders - Oedipus complex was due to
d. power certain environmental conditions
e. exploit others and not to biology
f. social recognition or prestige - The child’s main goal security, not
g. personal admiration sexual intercourse
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method of systematically combining
data from many studies.

 Psychotherapy
- The general goal of Horneyian
therapy is to help patients gradually
grow in the direction of self-
realization.
- to have the patients give up their
idealized self-image, relinquish their
neurotic search for glory, and
change self-hatred