Horney

Question 1

horney’s psychology

Answer 1

psychoanalytic social psychology

Question 2

horney summary

Answer 2

social and cultural influences shape personality, especially in childhood. this includes your environment and interpersonal relationships. basic anxiety is formed when a person feels vulnerable and hostility is felt. everyone has psychological needs to feel loved and secure, and neurosis happens when these needs are not met. personality traits form when self protecting tactics turn into trends, which become stable traits.

Question 3

compliant personality

Answer 3

(horney) dependent on others for self worth
-moves towards

Question 4

aggressive personality

Answer 4

(horney) must be stronger, better, tougher than everyone else to have worth
-moves against

Question 5

detached personality

Answer 5

(horney) must move away from others in order to feel secure and find internal value
-moves away

Question 6

to horney

Answer 6

health is found in flexibility

Question 7

idealized self

Answer 7

fictional belief in an ideal version of yourself
-can lead to the tyranny of shoulds