Dr. Karen Horney

Question 1

Basic anxiety

Answer 1

An irrational emotional experience involving a pervasive unpleasant feeling of extreme discomfort

Question 2

Neurotic needs

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Forming enduring motivational patterns called neurotic needs

Question 3

Needs are considered neurotic when

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1) what a person adheres to them more rigidly than other people in that culture
2) when three is a discrepancy between a persons potentiality and their actual accomplishments

Question 4

Neurotic people lack flexibility when reacting to different situations

Answer 4

They may not be able to make decisions

Disrespectful of others because of a pervasive level of suspicion

Question 5

Neurotic need 1

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The neurotic need For affection and approval, the indiscriminate need to be please others and be liked by them

Question 6

Neurotic need 3

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Need to restrict ones life to narrow borders to be undemanding satisfied with little to be inconspicuous.

Question 7

Neurotic need 2

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The need for a partner. For someone who will take over ones life.

Question 8

Neurotic need 4

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Need for power, for control over others, for a facade of omnipotence.

Question 9

Neurotic need 5

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Need to exploit others and get the better of them

Question 10

Neurotic need 6

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For social recognition and prestige. Fear of being ignored

Question 11

Neurotic need 7

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For personal admiration. For inner qualities as well as outer ones

Question 12

Neurotic need 8

Answer 12

For personal achievement.

Question 13

Neurotic need 9

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For self sufficiency and independence. Cant ask for help.

Question 14

Neurotic need 10

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For perfection and unassailibility.

Question 15

Coping strategies

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Compliance1-2
Aggression 4-8
Withdrawl 9, 10, 3
Needs listed afterwards

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Compliance is also known as

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The moving towards strategy.

Predominant characteristics include helplessness and compliane

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Aggression is also known as

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Moving against

Compulsive exaggerated craving for power and prestige as well as personal ambition

Question 18

Neurotic self is split

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Despised self and ideal self. This is when you are not healthy. Your interpretation of how others see you is your interpretation of how you see yourself

Question 19

Ideal self

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It is not a positive goal, unrealistic and ultimately impossible, neurotic swings back and forth between hating themselves and pretending to be perfect.

Question 20

Neurotic search for glory

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Based upon the formation of the idealized image

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Neurotic pride

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Substitutes a in the attributes of the idealized self for realistic self-confidence and self esteem. Threats to pride produce anxiety and hostility; it’s collapse results I’m self contempt and despair

Question 22

Neurotic claims

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Demands to be treated in accordance with our grandiose conception of ourselves

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Self hatred

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Neurotic individuals dislike themselves because their real self…

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Psychological differences between men and women

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Are due to cultural and social expectations rather than anatomy

Question 25

Oedipus complex opinion

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Sexual attraction or hostility towards parent or child, is a result of learning and not biology. If penis envy existed, so should womb envy

Question 26

Psychotherapy

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Development of self understanding through self analysis.
Successful when patients can assume responsibility for their psychological development.
Goals: help patients grow to self realization. Give up their idealized self image. Relinquish their neurotic search for glory. Change self hatred to self acceptance. Focus on love, mastery, and freedom.