Horney: Psychoanalytic Social Theory

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largely responsible for shaping personality

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social and cultural conditions
Childhood experiences

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expressed as either self contempt or alienation from self

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self hatred

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resulted from basic anxiety caused by interpersonal relationships.

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Neurosis

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competitiveness and the basic hostility it spawns result in

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feeling of isolation

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feeling of being alone in a potentially hostile world leads to

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intensified need for affection

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is the age from which the vast majority of problem arise

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Childhood

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are primarily responsible for personality development

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childhood experiences

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if parents do not satisfy the child needs for safety and satisfaction, the child develop feelings of

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Basic hostility

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

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Basic Anxiety

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defense against basic anxiety

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Affection
Submissiveness
Striving for power, prestige, and possession
Withdrawal

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does not always lead to authentic love

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Affection

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neurotics may submit themselves either to people or to institutions such as an organizations or a religion.

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Submissiveness

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defense against a real or imagined hostility of others and takes the form of a tendency to dominate others.

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Power

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protection against humiliation and is expressed as a tendency to humiliate others.

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Prestige

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act as a buffer against destitution and poverty and manifest itself as tendency to deprive others.

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Possession

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developing an independence from others or by becoming emotionally detached from them.

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Withdrawal

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neurotics attempt indiscriminatory to please others

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need for affection and approval

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this need includes an overvaluation of love and a dread of being alone or deserted.

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need for powerful partner

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they downgrade their own abilities and dread making demands on others.

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need to restrict one’s life within narrow borders

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need to control others and to avoid feelings of weakness or stupidity.

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need for power

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neurotics frequently evaluate others on the basis of how can be used or exploited

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need to exploit others

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trying to be first, to be important, or to attraction to themselves

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need for social recognition or prestige

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neurotics have a need to be admired for what they are, rather than for what they possess.

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need for personal admiration

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they must defeat other people in order to confirm their superiority.

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need for ambition and personal achievement

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proving that they can get along without others

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need for self-sufficiency and independence

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they dread making mistakes and having personal flaws, and they desperately attempt to hide their weaknesses from others.

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need for perfection and unassailability

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three basic attitudes/neurotic trends

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moving toward, against, away from people

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it refers to a neurotic need to protect oneself against feeling of helplessness.

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Moving toward people

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these people move against others by appearing tough or ruthless

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Moving against people

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this strategy is an expression of needs for privacy, independence, and self-efficiency

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moving away from people

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Moving toward people includes:

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Neurotic need affection and approval Powerful partner Restrict one's life within narrow border

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Moving against people includes:

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Neurotic need for power exploit others social recognition and prestige personal admiration ambition and personal achievement

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Moving away from people includes:

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self-sufficiency and independence perfection and unassailability

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process originate from interpersonal experiences

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Intrapsychic

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two important intrapsychic conflicts

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idealized self image and self hatred

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it is an attempt to solve conflicts by painting a godlike picture of one self.

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The idealized self image

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Is an interrelated yet equally irrational and powerful tendency to despise one's real self.

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Self hatred

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three aspect of the idealized image

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Neurotic search for glory Neurotic Claims Neurotic Pride

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referred as the comprehensive drive toward actualizing the ideal self

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Neurotic Search for glory

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the neurotic search for glory includes three other elements:

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The need for perfection Neurotic Ambition Drive toward a Vindictive Triumph

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refers to the drive to mold the whole personality. (tyranny of the should)

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The need for perfection

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the compulsive drive toward superiority

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Neurotic Ambition

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the most destructive element of all. (to put others to shame or defeat them)

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Drive toward a Vindictive Triumph

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Neurotics build a fantasy world --- A world that is out of sync with the real world.

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Neurotic Claims

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based on idealized image of self and is usually loudly proclaimed in order and support a glorified view of one's self.

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Neurotic Pride

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when they realize that their real self does not match the insatiable demands of their idealized self, they will begin to hate and despise themselves.

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Self hatred

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six major ways people express self hatred:

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* Relentless demands on the self * Merciless self-accusation * Self-Contempt * Self-frustration * Self-torment/torture * Self-destructive actions and impulses

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these people continue to push themselves toward perfection because they believe they should be perfect.

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Relentless demands on the self

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Neurotics constantly berate themselves.

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Merciless self-accusation

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prevents people from striving for improvement or achievement

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self-contempt

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stems from self hatred and is designed to actualize an inflated self image.(postponing or forgoing pleasurale activities in order to achieve reasonable goals)

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self-frustration

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main intention is to inflict harm or suffering on themselves.

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self-torment/torture

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which may be either physical or psychological, conscious or unconscious, acute or chronic, carried out in action or enacted only in the imagination. (Overeating, working too hard, suicide, quitting a job just when it begins to fulfilling)

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Self-destructive actions and impulses