CHAPTER 6 Horney: Key Terms and Concepts

Question 1

Horney insisted that _______ and ___________ were more important than biological ones.

Answer 1

social and cultural influences

Question 2

Children who lack warmth and affection fail to meet their?

Answer 2

needs for safety and satisfaction

Question 3

Feelings of isolation and helplessness (in a potentially hostile world) trigger?

Answer 3

basic anxiety

Question 4

The inability of people to use different tactics in their relationships with others generates

Answer 4

basic conflict

Question 5

basic conflict is the _________________ to move toward, against, and away from people.

Answer 5

incompatible tendency

Question 6

What are the three neurotic trends?

Answer 6

the tendencies to move toward, against, or away from people

Question 7

What do healthy people use solve their basic conflict?

Answer 7

three neurotic trends

Question 8

Neurotics solve their basic conflict by?

Answer 8

compulsively adopt only one of the neurotic trends trends

Question 9

The three neurotic trends (moving toward, against, or away from people) are a combination of how many neurotic trends?

Answer 9

10 neurotic trends

Question 10

Both healthy and neurotic people experience _______________ that have become part of their belief system.

Answer 10

intrapsychic conflicts

Question 11

What are the two major intrapsychic conflicts?

Answer 11

idealized self-image and self-hatred

Question 12

The idealized self-image results in neurotics’ attempts to build a ______________ of themselves.

Answer 12

godlike picture

Question 13

The tendency for neurotics to hate and despise their real self.

Answer 13

Self-hatred

Question 14

It is due to cultural and social expectations and not to biology.

Answer 14

psychological differences between men and women

Question 15

The goal of Horneyian psychotherapy is to bring about?

Answer 15

growth toward actualization of the real self