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Karen Horney Flashcards

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1 Neurotic Needs

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  • childhood need for safety
    -infant helplessness need for safety was not met
    -excessively, dependent, punishment, lack of affection guilt causes hostility
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Basic Anxiety

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Repressed hostility leading to feelings of loneliness- effects ego

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Compliant Personality

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-Moves towards people
-fears rejection, seeks approval
-subordinates personal desires,
-feels Infor to others
- other peoples standards

  • submissive
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Aggressive Personality

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-Moves against people
-driven by insecurity and hostility
-highly successful
-loud supority

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Detached Personality

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-Moves away from people,
-maintains emotional distance
-suppression of feelings
-logical process
-private

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Idealized Self Image

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Unattainable view of self leading to denial

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Neo-Psychoanalytic Approach

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Expands Freud’s ideas of studyting uncounisous and biological factors in childhood, emphasizing importance of social and cultural factors, early childhood experiences

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Childhood Safety Need

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Essential need for security during early development.

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3 Neurotic Trends !(personalities)

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1-compliant personality

2-aggressive personality
-safety need never got met and repress hostility

3-detached personality

Patterns of behavior stemming from unmet needs.

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Movement Toward People
Movement Against People

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Seeking affection and approval from others.

Aggressive behavior to assert dominance.

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Healthy Personality

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Can express needs appropriately based on context.

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Neurotic Person

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Dominated by one neurotic trend, unmet needs.

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Normal Person

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Expresses needs flexibly, balancing conflicting desires

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2 children’s self protective mechanisms

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1- securing affection and love( if they love me they wont hurt me)

2-being submissive (submission=less likely to hurt me)

3- attainting power (If i have power)

4- withdrawing into self (i don’t need parents, protection form hurt)

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4 Idealized self image

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-healthy person- tend to have accurate view of self strengths and weaknesses
reflects growth and awareness

-neurotic characteristics- unattainable inflexible ideal
leads to denial of self

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When self protective mechanism’s used too much

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Turns into a
neurotic need

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Needs and trends- situation’s

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Conflict**
-neurotic trends incompatible
-core of neurosis

Neurotic person**
-one of the three trends is dominate
-other needs in conflict go unmet

Normal person**
-able to express needs and trends as circumstances warrant
-needs in conflict with neurotic dominate need (ex compliant standing up for self but cant)

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Feminine psychology

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Social environment culturally and gender wise also shapes who you are and self perception

She would say:
Oedipus Complex, Not sexual
-Represents conflict between dependence & hostility

Flight from Womanhood
-Denial of femininity
-Women’s unconscious wish to be men

Womb Envy
-Envy men feel toward women due to her capacity for motherhood

-Social & cultural conflict

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neo psychoanalytic
k & A

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An approach to the study of personality that expands on the original psychoanalytic ideas.

The neo-psychoanalytic approach acknowledges the importance of early
childhood experiences however, gives additional focus to social and cultural
factors in addition to

unconscious and biological factors. (added onto Freuds)

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four ways parents cause infant helplessness

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  1. parent keeps child excessively dependent
  2. Increased helpless through punishment
  3. fake love
  4. guilt

all cause repressed hostility

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Methods

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Clinical observations, case sturdies, cultural influences

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Externalization

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what part of her theory has modern research incorporated

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10 neurotic needs

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  1. affection & approval
  2. a dominate partner
  3. power
  4. explanation
  5. prestige
    6.admiration
  6. achievement or ambition
  7. self sufficiency
  8. perfection
    10.narrow limits to life
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Horney assessment measurers

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free association
dream analysis

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tyranny of the shoulds

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behaving how one thinks they should

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criticisms

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-denied the role of biological influences
-incomplete theory
-theory only applicable to middle class

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What needs stem from withdrawing, .. and turn into

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8- self sufficiency
9-perfection
10- Narrow limits life

detached personality

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What are the needs that steam from attaining power .. and turn into

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3- power
4-explotation
5-pristige
6- admiration
7. achievement

aggressive

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What needs steam from being submissive … and turn into

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2 dominate partner

compliant personality

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what needs steam from securing affection and love… and turn into

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1 affection and approval

compliment personality

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