Biography of Karen Horney Flashcards
Karen Danielsen Horney was born in Eilbek, a small town near Hamburg, Germany, on _____. She was the only daughter of Berndt (Wackels)
Danielsen, a _____, and Clothilda van Ronzelen Danielsen, a woman nearly
__ years younger than her husband.
September 15, 1885
sea captain
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When she was __, Horney decided to become a _____, but at that time no
university in Germany admitted women.
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physician
By the time she was __, this situation had
changed. So Horney entered the gymnasium, a school that would lead to
a university and then to medical school.
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In ____, she entered the University of Freiburg, becoming one of the first women
in Germany to study medicine. There she met __________, a political science student.
Their relationship began as a friendship, but it eventually became a romantic one.
1906
Oskar Horney
After their marriage in ____, the couple settled in Berlin, where Oskar, now with a PhD,
worked for a coal company and Karen, not yet with an MD, specialized in psychiatry
1909
Early in ____, she began an
analysis with Karl Abraham, one of Freud’s close associates and a man who later analyzed Melanie Klein.
1910
By ___,
she had written her first paper on psychoanalysis, “_________________” (Horney, 1917/1968), which reflected the orthodox Freudian view and
gave little indication of Horney’s subsequent independent thinking
1917
“The Technique of Psychoanalytic
Therapy”
she received her MD degree in ____ after 5 years of psychoanalysis; and, in her quest for the right
man, she had several love affairs
1915
In ____, Horney established the Karen Horney Clinic.
1952
In ____, Karen and Oskar separated but did not officially divorce until ____ (Paris, 1994).
1926
1938
In ____, Horney left Germany for the position of an associate director in the
newly established Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.
1932
In ____, Horney published her most important work, Neurosis and Human
Growth.
1950,
After a short illness, Horney died of cancer on _____. She was __ years old.
December 4, 1952
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