Chapter 5: Karen Horney

Question 1

Theories during the Great depression

Answer 1

At first she agreed with Freud but later realise his views do not reflect the people during the Great depression

Question 2

Basic Evil

Answer 2

parental indifference, a lack of warmth and affection in childhood.

Question 3

hostility

Answer 3

aggression which a child develops as a result of “basic evil”

Question 4

anxiety

Answer 4

neurosis resulted from basic anxiety caused by interpersonal relationships

Question 5

Freud

Answer 5

early childhood experience development is important

Question 6

Adler

Answer 6

child starts life with a feeling of helplessness
- doesn’t agree that child will overcompensate for helplessness

Question 7

basic needs

Answer 7

safety and satisfaction
- children are completely dependent on the satisfaction of food, water, and sleep
- satisfaction is less important to sleep
- need for safety meant security and freedom from fear

Question 8

parents

Answer 8

warm and loving ( satisfying the need for safety
hostile and indifferent ( frustrating need for safety)

Question 9

Basic hostility

Answer 9

• abused children experience this
  -a child has hostility towards parents
  a. repressed feeling due to fear
  b. out of love, guilt, and fear
• feelings of hostility do not remain isolated towards parents, they become generalized

Question 10

basic anxiety and hostility are interwoven

Question 11

adjustment to basic anxiety

Answer 11

10 strategies to minimize basic anxiety ( trends)

Question 12

Trends of Basic anxiety

Answer 12

• need for attention and approval
• need for a partner who will run our life
• need to live one life within narrow limits
• need for power
• need to exploit others
• need for social recognition and prestige
• need for personal admiration
• need for ambition and personal achievement
• need for self-sufficiency and independent
• need for perfection and unassailability

Question 13

self analysis

Answer 13

having proper knowledge and skills

Question 14

goals of psychotherapy

Answer 14

positive growth
- self realization and nothing interferes with develop of healthy persons
real self
- responsible and makes decision

Question 15

penis envy

Answer 15

• males had womb envy
• women felt inferior to men to cultural difference

Question 16

feminine psychology

Answer 16

male symbolic marry mothers and females father
- maintain educational relationship with parents

Question 17

cynicism

Answer 17

this does not believe in anything and takes the joy out of things
- immune to disappointment when things are false

Question 18

elusiveness

Answer 18

the opposite of arbitrary rightness
- never decide bec not want to be wrong

Question 19

arbitrary rightness

Answer 19

• a neurotic can choose one solution and dogmatically declares that the problem is a sovled and debate is over

Question 20

excessive self control

Answer 20

• guarding against anxiety by controlling any expression of emotions

Question 21

rationalization

Answer 21

giving logical, plausible but inaccurate excuses to justify weakness
- compliant types must offer excuses for acts of agrees
- hostile types offer acts of kindness

Question 22

compartmentalization

Answer 22

• diving one’s life into various components with different rules applying to each

Question 23

blind spots

Answer 23

denying certain aspects of experience bec they are not in accordance with one’s ideal self

Question 24

moving towards

Answer 24

need for affection

Question 25

moving against

Answer 25

hostile type

Question 26

moving away

Answer 26

detached

Question 27

externalization

Answer 27

there are no inhibitions
an incessant fear that the faults cannot be tolerated
headaches