Horney

Question 1

Moving Toward RTO

Answer 1

Key word is Compliant: try to overcome their basic anxiety by gaining affection and approval. Bargain is if they do good for others they will receive that same in return

Question 2

Moving Against RTO

Answer 2

Key Word is Expansive: Try to overcome basic anxiety by gaining a mastery over their environment
Three sub types:
narcissistic; seek to master life “by self-admiration and the exercise of charm”
Perfectionistic; Having extremely high standards and expects others to perform to such
Arrogant-Vindictive; Seek to dominate there environment because of harsh treatment in childhood

Question 3

Moving Away RTO

Answer 3

Key Word: detachment: Seeks to gain self efficiency from environment, and remove oneself from problems

Question 4

Basic Anxiety

Answer 4

a feeling of helplessness in a potentially hostile world, strategies of defense: pursuit of love, power, or detachment.

Question 5

Real Self

Answer 5

The real self is not a fixed entity but a set of essential potentialitie. it is actualized through interactions with an external world that can provide many paths of development.

Question 6

Tyranny of the shoulds

Answer 6

The shoulds compel us to live up to our grandiose conception of our-selves. create conflict when our idealized self wants something different than our real self