Karen Horney Theory (neurotic Need) Flashcards
develops when the parents do not satisfy the child’s need for safety and satisfaction.
Basic Hostility
Plays a leading role in shaping human personality, either neurotic or healthy
Culture
feeling of being isolated and helpless in a word conceived as potentially hostile.
Basic anxiety
4 general ways that people protect themselves against feeling of being alone.
- Affection
- Submissiveness
- Power, Prestige, Possession
- Withdrawal
- try to purchase love with self-effacing compliance, material goods, and sexual favors.
Affection
- submitting themselves to either people or institution
Submissiveness
- defense against real or imagined hostility.
Power, Prestige and Possession
- developing independence from other by becoming emotionally DETACHED TO THEM.
Withdrawal
everyone uses them to guard against rejection, hostility and competitiveness.
Compulsive Drives
- The neurotic need for affection and approval
attempt to please others.
- The neurotic need for affection and approval
- attaching themselves for a powerful partner
- The neurotic need for a power partner
- being contented to very little, downgrade their own abilities.
- The neurotic need to restricts one’s life within narrow borders.
- is usually combined with the needs for prestige and possession and manifest as a need to control others.
- The neurotic need for power.
- evaluate others on basis of how they can be used or exploited.
- The neurotic need to exploit others.
- Trying to be first, to be important, or to attract attention to themselves.
- The neurotic need for social recognition or prestige.
- need to be admired for what they are rather than foe what they have
- The neurotic need for personal admiration
- strong drive to the best
- The neurotic need for ambition and personal achievement.
- strong need to move away from people thereby providing can get along without others
- The neurotic need for self-sufficient and independence
- striving relentlessly for perfection
- The neurotic need for perfection and unassailability
3 Neurotic Trends/ 3 basic Conflict
- Moving toward people
- Moving against people
- Moving away from people
greater emphasis on the inner conflicts that both normal and neurotic individual experience.
Intrapsychic Conflict
a. attempts to solve problem by painting godlike picture of oneself.
a. Idealized Self- Image
b. despises one’s real self.
b. Self- hatred
