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Horney Flashcards

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Horney criticized Freud on 3 accounts

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  • rigidity toward new ideas
  • skewed view of feminine psych
  • overemphasis on biology and pleasure principle
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Horney insisted that kodwrn culture is too competitive and that competition leads to…

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  • hostility and feelings of isolation

- exaggerated needs for affection and cause ppl to overvalue love

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Neurotic conflict stems largely from

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Childhood trauma

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Parents neglect, reject or overindulge their children that lead to feelings of…

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Basic hostility

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People protect themselves from basic anxiety thru a number of protective devices (4)

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  • affection
  • submissiveness
  • strive for power, prestige and possession
  • withdrawal
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Inner tensions that become part of one’s belief system and take on a life of their own; originate from interpersonal experiences

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Intrapsychic conflict

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Her view of Oedipus complex differed markedly from Freud’s in that she insisted that any sexual attraction ir hostility of child to parent would be the result of….

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Result of learning and not biology

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Goal of Horneyian therapy

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grow toward self-realization, give up idealized self-image, relinquish neurotic search for glory and change self-hatred to self-acceptance

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Horney believed that successful therapy is built on..

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self-analysis and self-understanding

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___ are not the result of instincts but rather of the person’s attempt to find paths through a wilderness full of unknown dangers

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neuroses

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Develops if parents unable to satisfy child’s needs of safety and satisfaction

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Basic hostility

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Feeling of being isolated and helpless in a world conceived as potentially hostile

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basic anxiety

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protection against humiliation and expressed as a tendency to humiliate others

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striving for prestige

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Salient characteristic of all neurotic drives

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compulsion

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What does it mean to restrict one’s life with narrow borders?

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settle for less; downgrade abilities and dread making demands on others

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Be admired for what they are rather than what they possess

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neurotic need for personal admiration

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3 Neurotic trends

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  • moving toward people
  • moving against people
  • moving away from people
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Neurotic needs under moving toward people

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  • for affection and approval
  • powerful partner
  • restrict one’s life with narrow borders
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Neurotic needs under moving against people

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  • for power
  • to exploit others
  • social recognition or prestige
  • for personal admiration
  • for ambition and personal achievement
20
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Defeat other people to confirm superiority

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neurotic need for ambition and personal achievement

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Neurotic needs under moving away from people

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  • for self-sufficiency

- for perfection and unassailability

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Neurotic trend that protects oneself against FEELINGS OF HOPELESSNESS

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moving toward people

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Neurotic trend that serves as protection against hostility of others

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moving against people

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Neurotic trend that characterizes feelings of isolation

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moving away from people

25
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An attempt to solve conflicts by painting a god-like picture of one’s self

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idealized self-image

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Neurotic needs under idealized self-image

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  • neurotic search for glory
  • neurotic claims
  • neurotic pride
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Incorporate goals, self-concept in relation with others

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neurotic search for glory

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3 elements of neurotic search for glory

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  • the need for perfection
  • neurotic ambition
  • drive toward a vindinctive triumph
29
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Mold whole personality into idealized self

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the need for perfection

30
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Compulsive drive toward superiority

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neurotic ambition

31
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Disguise as a drive for success but chief aim is to put others to shame/ defeat by one’s success; most destructive element

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Drive toward a vindinctive triumph

32
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They proclaim that they are special and be treated with accordance with their idealized self-image

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neurotic claims

33
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Associate with socially prominent ppl in order to avoid being hurt by people who refuse to accept their neurotic claims

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neurotic pride

34
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A result when real self doesn’t match idealized self

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self-hatred

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Self-hatred: berate self; taking responsibility for natural disasters

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merciless self-accusation

36
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Self-hatred: belittle, doubt, discredit, ridicule oneself

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self-contempt

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Self-hatred: shackled by taboos against enjoyment

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self-frustration

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Self-hatred: main intention is to inflict harm or suffering to self

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self-torture

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Self-hatred: overeating, reckless driving, substance abuse

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self-destructive actions and impulses

40
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Accdg. to Horney, Oedipus complex develops..

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as an expression of the neurotic need for love

41
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Ability to recognize threats in the environment would be related to decreased negative mood

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Neurotic (in a good way)

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