Karen Horney Flashcards
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Who is Karen Horney?
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- developed feminine psychology
- 1885-1952
- neglected second born
- father was religious, domineering, imperious and morose
- mother was attractive, spirited and freethinking
- cultural and social forces are far more responsible than biology
- sexual problems secondary to jobs, food, and medical care
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What can build anxiety?
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- when childhood need for safety is not met
- parents ridicule and humiliate
- isolation of child from peers
- kept in dependent state
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What is basic evil?
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- Anything that parents do that undermines a child’s security
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What is basic hostility?
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- Feeling generated in a child if needs for safety and satisfaction are not consistently and lovingly satisfied by the parents
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What is basic anxiety?
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- psychological state that exists when basic hostility is repressed
- general feeling that everyone in the world is potentially dangerous
- causes feelings of helplessness and loneliness
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What is the foundation of neurosis?
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- pervasive feeling of loneliness and helplessness
- fighting off feelings of inadequacy and insecurity
- trapped in self-defeating interpersonal style
- disturbed interpersonal relationships during childhood
- grow up in homes that foster anxiety
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How does bad parenting affect children?
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- lack a sense of personal worth
- afraid and unsure of how to deal with parents
- fear unjust punishment for reasons they can’t understand
- insecure and inadequate
- desperately want but fail to receive the warmth and support they need
- confused, afraid, anxious
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How do people deal with anxiety?
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- develop strategies for dealing with threatening people
- self-protective mechanisms
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What do self-protective mechanisms do?
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- motivate person to seek security and reassurance
- are powerful and intense
- alleviate anxiety in short run
- rely on even for people outside the family
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What are neurotic needs?
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- strategies for minimizing basic anxiety
- everyone has these needs and attempts to satisfy them
-neurotic person makes one need their focal point in life
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What are the 10 neurotic needs?
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- Need for Affection and Approval
- Need for a Partner Who Will Run One’s Life
- Need to Live one’s Live Within Narrow Limits
- Need for Power
- Need to Exploit Others
- Need for Social Recognition and Prestige
- Need for Personal Admiration
- Need for Ambition and Personal Achievement
- Need for Self-Sufficiency and Independence
- Need for Protection and Unassailability (invincibility)
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What are interaction styles / neurotic trends?
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- neurotics adopt to avoid anxiety provoking experiences
- we all use each of the three on occasion to combat anxiety
- neurotic individuals rely on one of the styles for all social interactions
- their destructive interpersonal style is a type of defense mechanism intended to ward off feelings of anxiety
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What are the three interaction styles?
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- moving toward people
- moving against people
- moving away from people
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What is the moving toward people style?
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- the compliant type
- emphasize their helplessness
- dependent on others
- seeking affection and acceptance
- sympathy they receive provides temporary relief
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How does the moving toward people style affect adults?
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- intense need to be love and accepted
- if they can find love, everything will be okay
- attach themselves to whoever is available
- relationship is better than lonely and unwanted
- don’t love, cling
- don’t share, demand affection
- each relationship is doomed
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What is the moving against people style?
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- the hostile type
- fight
- aggressiveness and hostility
- pushing around other children
- rewarded with fleeting sense of power and respect
- no real friendships
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How does the moving against people style affect adults?
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- take advantage
- lash out
- need to exploit others
- externalization; learn that people are hostile and only interested in themselves so do unto others before they can do unto you
- only enter relationships when something can be gained
- shallow, unfulfilling, painful relationships
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What is the moving away from people style?
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- the detached type
- tune out the world
- desire for privacy and self sufficiency is intense
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How does the moving away from people style affect adults?
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- seek out jobs requiring little interactions
- avoid affection, love and friendship
- numbness to emotional experiences
- avoid involvement
- cannot return affection because it is not experienced
- relationships are shallow and unrewarding
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What needs go with the moving toward people style?
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- Need for Affection and Approval
- Need for a Partner Who Will Run One’s Life
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What needs go with the moving against people style?
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- Need for Power
- Need to Exploit Others
- Need for Social Recognition and Prestige
- Need for Personal Admiration
- Need for Ambition and Personal Achievement
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What needs go with the moving away from people style?
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- Need to Live one’s Live Within Narrow Limits
- Need for Self-Sufficiency and Independence
- Need for Perfection
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What is feminine psychology?
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- womb envy
- if a woman living in Freud’s era wished she were a man, it was probably because of the restrictions and burdens placed on her by the culture, not inherent inferiorities
- in a free society, little reason to believe girls would want to be boys and vice versa
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What is womb envy?
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- men’s envy of women’s ability to bear and nurse children
- not that men are dissatisfied with themselves
- each gender has attributes that the other admires
- mean compensate for their inability to have children through achievements in other domains
