Karen Horney

Question 1

What did Karen Horney get known for?

Answer 1

Social-Interpersonal psychoanalysis

Question 2

What is basic evil

Answer 2

Parental indifference

Question 3

Parental indifference is a cause of what?

Answer 3

The neurosis they have a as a result of how their parents treated them

Question 4

Parental indifference causes to things in children. What?

Answer 4

Basic hostility and basic anxiety

Question 5

Define basic hostility

Answer 5

Horney described it as a bad attitude which child develops as a result of “basic evil”

Question 6

Define basic anxiety

Answer 6

it is the nutritive soil from which neurosis arises

Question 7

Define the real self

Answer 7

the true core of one’s being, containing potential for growth

Question 8

Define the despised real self

Answer 8

false harmful conceptions of one’s self based on the evaluations of others

Question 9

Define actual self

Answer 9

Objectively living person independent of anyone’s perceptions

Question 10

Define ideal self

Answer 10

The damaged real self, hurt by negative evaluations, struggling with tyranny of shoulds

Question 11

Define tyranny of the shoulds

Answer 11

the idealized self-image substitution for genuine self-confidence

Question 12

What is the result of the tyranny of the shoulds?

Answer 12

the real self is replaced by a sense of how one should be

Question 13

define neurosis

Answer 13

excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession

Question 14

what is the core neurotic conflict

Answer 14

adoption of the idealized self in an attempt to mould themselves into something they are not, in order to gain the security they have lost

Question 15

what are the three consequences of the individuals alienation from the real self

Answer 15

1. Abandonment of self-responsibility
2. Actively moving against oneself
3. Actively moving away from the real self

Question 16

name the first five of the 10 neurotic needs

Answer 16

1. A need for affection and approval
2. A need for a “partner” to take over one’s life
3. A need to restrict ones life within narrow boarders
4. A need for power
5. A need to exploit others

Question 17

Name the last five of the 10 neurotic needs

Answer 17

6. A need for prestige
7. A need for personal admiration
8. A need for personal achievement
9. A need for self-sufficiency
10. A need for perfection and unassailability

Question 18

`What are the three interpersonal adjustment patterns?

Answer 18

1. Moving toward people
2. Moving against people
3. Moving away from people