Chapter 6 - Horney Flashcards
What is basic anxiety, according to Horney?
Feelings of isolation and helplessness in a potentially hostile world
What is basic hostility, according to Horney?
Repressed feelings of rage that originate during childhood when children fear that their parents will not satisfy their needs for safety and satisfaction
What were the defenses against basic anxiety that Horney identified?
- affection
- submissiveness
- power/prestige/possession
- withdrawal
What are the ten neurotic needs?
- affection & approval
- restriction w/in narrow borders
- social recognition/prestige (attention)
- personal admiration
- exploitation of others
- powerful partner
- power
- self-sufficiency & independence
- ambition & personal achievement
- perfection & unassailability
What are the three neurotic trends?
- moving toward people
- moving against people
- moving away from people
What is Horney’s idea of basic conflict?
The incompatible tendency to move toward, against, and away from people
- feelings of helplessness
- protection against hostility of others
- feelings of isolation
What is the idealized self-image, according to Horney?
An attempt to resolve basic conflicts by painting a godlike picture of oneself
- neurotic search for glory: need for perfection (tyranny of the should), neurotic ambition, drive toward vindictive triumph
- neurotic claims: wild expectations
- neurotic pride: boasting
How do people express self-hatred, according to Horney?
- relentless demands on the self
- merciless self-accusation
- self-contempt
- self-frustration
- self-torment
- self-destructive actions & impulses
What is the goal of Horneyian psychotherapy?
To bring about growth toward actualization of the real self
