Karen Horney Flashcards
Two basic childhood needs
- Satisfaction: food, water, and sleep
- Safety: need for safety and freedom from fear
Things that parents do to undermine their child’s safety
Basic Evil
The reaction of the child when they face their parent’s abuse
Basic Hostility (anger and aggression)
A pervasive feeling of loneliness and helplessness
Basic Anxiety
Horney believed that any of the self-protective mechanisms could become so permanent a part of the personality that it assumes the characteristics of a drive or need in determining the individual’s behavior
Neurotic Needs
3 Basic Attitudes of Neurotic Trends
- Moving Toward People
- Moving Away from People
- Moving Against people
This basic attitude reflects the need for a partner and for affection; involves compulsive modesty; trend is associated with needs for: affection and approval
Moving toward People
This basic attitude is associated with needs for power, exploiting others, social recognition or prestige, and personal achievement
Moving against people
Reflects a person’s concern with self; needs for admiration and perfectionism; predominant direction is one of isolation; one feels that he has not much in common with others
Moving away from people
A central inner force common to all human beings and yet unique in each – conducive to normal personality growth
Real Self
The distorted view of one’s self as unworthy; an extravagantly positive view of themselves that exists only in their personal belief system
Idealized self image
The tendency to experience internal processes as if they occurred outside oneself and as a rule, to hold these external factors responsible for one’s difficulties
Externalization
