Lecture 6. Horney Flashcards

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In psychoanalytic social theory, what is largely responsible for shaping one’s personality

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Social and cultural conditions especially childhood experiences

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Self-hatred is expressed as?

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self-contempt or self-alienation

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3
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Karen Horney Birth Order

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Youngest child and only daughter in Danielsen family

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4
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Father and mother of Karen Age Gap

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father is 18 years older than the mother

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Relationship of Karen with his father

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Karen felt great hostility towarfs her father and grew disobeying him

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Karen married with? And how many children did they have?

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Oskar Horney and 2 Daughters

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When she started her psychiatric practice, what did she do?

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she wrote books opposing instinct theory if Freud and placed more emphasis on ego and social influences

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What concept of Freud did Karen rejected?

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The biological determinism, instead of libido and thanatos/mortido, the basic needs in childhood were security and satisfaction

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Karen’s opposition to Freud’s work made her?

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the President of rival organization

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What organization did Karen became president?

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Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

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Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis later became?

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Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute

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12
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Most important book of Horney

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Neurosis and Human Growth

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13
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Acc. to Horney, neurosis is?

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caused by disturbed human relationships

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Rudiments of neurotic behaviors are found in the?

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relationships between the parent and child

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15
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Child starts life with?

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feelings of helplessness relative to the parents

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Basic Hostility

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developed an abused child towards his parents

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17
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Basic Anxiety is aka.

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Basic conflict

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18
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Basic Anxiety is developed as?

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Developed as conflict between basic hostility and dependency on parents, thus repressing their basic hostility to survive

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Basic anxiety is a feeling of?

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A feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted and endangered

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20
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10 Neurotic Needs

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  1. affection and approval
  2. powerful partner
  3. restrict one’s life within narrow borders
  4. power
  5. exploit others
  6. social recognition or prestige
  7. personal admiration
  8. ambition and personal achievement
  9. self-sufficiency and independence
  10. perfection and unassailability
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The neurotic need for affection and approval

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desire to be loved and admired by others

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The neurotic need for a powerful partner

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desire to be protected from all dangers

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the Neurotic need to restrict one’s life within narrow borders

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desire to be conservative, avoiding defeat by attempting very little

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the neurotic need for power

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glorifying strength and despising weakness

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the neurotic need to exploit others

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dreading to be taken advantage by others, but thinks nothing except how to take advantage of another

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the neurotic need for social recognition or prestige

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desire to be recognized, give attention, importance

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the neurotic need for personal admiration

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desire to be flattered, complimented, idolized by others

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the neurotic need for ambition and personal achievement

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intense interest to be famous, rich, important, unreachable, grandiose

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the neurotic need for self-sufficiency and independence

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avoids being obligated, not be enslaved, possessed, tied down, committed

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the neurotic need for perfection and unassailability

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desire to be flawless because of the hypersensitivity to criticisms

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3 Neurotic Trends

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Moving Toward People, moving against people, moving away from people

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Moving toward people “?”

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If i give in, I shall not be hurt

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Another term for Moving toward people

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The compliant type

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Moving against people “?”

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If i have power, no one can hurt me

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Another term for moving against people

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the hostile type

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Moving away from people “?”

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If I withdraw, nothing can hurt me

37
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Another term for Moving away from people

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the detached type

38
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Neurotic Needs that belong to MTP

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affection & approval, powerful partner, restrict one’s life within narrow borders

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Neurotic needs that belong to MAP

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power, exploit others, social recognition & prestige, ambition & personal achievement

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Neurotic needs that belong to MAFP

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self-sufficiency & independence, perfection & unassailability

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Neurotic Trends is aka.

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Primary Adjustment Technique

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8 Secondary Adjustment Techniques

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Blind Spots, Compartmentalization, Rationalization, Excessive Self-Control, Externalization, Arbitrary Rightness, Elusiveness, Cynicism

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Blind spots

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Denying or ignoring certain aspects in an experience if not in accordance with idealized self

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Compartmentalization

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dividing one’s life into various components with diff. rules applying to them

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Rationalization

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giving good reason to excuse conduct that would be anxiety producing

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Excessive Self-Control

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guarding against anxiety by controlling an expression of emotion

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Externalization

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person does not feel responsible for himself or his actions

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Arbitrary Rightness

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based on personal choice, insisting authority and finality to end debate

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Elusiveness

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never making a decision about anything

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Cynicism

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not believing in anything

51
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2 Intrapsychic Conflicts

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Idealized Self-Image and Self-Hatred

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Idealized Self-Image for Normal People

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a concept of what we would like to become

goal to reach in the future

where we can organize our lives and aspire for

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Idealized Self-Image for Neurotic People

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more of an escape from real self

a wish instead of reality

instead of self realization, theu move towards actualizing their idealized self

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3 Aspects of Idealized Self

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Neurotic Search for Glory, Neurotic Claims, neurotic pride

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Neurotic search for glory

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need for perfection, neurotic ambition and vindictive triumph.

A compulsive drive toward actualizing the ideal self

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neurotic claims

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building a fantasy world, proclaiming that they are special and therefore entitled to be treated in accordance with their idealized view of themselves

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neurotic pride

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loud proclamation of self to protect and support a glorified view of one’s self.

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Self-Hatred

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Neurotic people search for glory due to their unhappiness with themselves for not reaching idealized self-image, therefore hating and despising themselves

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6 Major Ways in Expressing Self-Hatred

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Relentless demands on the self
merciless self-accusation
self-contempt
self-frustration
self-torment
self-destructive actions and impulses

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Why people develop a number of strategies to cope uo with basic anxiety?

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due to experienced stressed and tensions

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Idealized Self-Image

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imaginary picture of the self as a possessor of unlimited powers and superlative qualities

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Actual Self

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one in everyday life, frustrated, anxious, disappointed for not living up with the idealized self

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Real Self

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will only be realized if the person begins to internalize that impossibility of idealized self and embracing the failures of actual self

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Oedipus Complex in Feminine Psychology

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due to certain environment conditions and not to biology

an expression of neurotic need for love, rooted in security from parents and not sexual intercourses

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Masculine Protest

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is a wish of women to have all qualities or privileges given to men, but not an expression of penis envy

66
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On Gender Differences in Feminine Psychology

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Society is responsible for psychological difference between women and men

67
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Horneyian Therapy

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help patients gradually grow in the direction of self-realization

68
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Psychotherapy for Horney is to be free from?

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tyranny of the should (imaginary picture of perfection)

69
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To Horney, all therapy uses?

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self-therapy since no change could take plave without the involvement of the client

70
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For Horney, change is?

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change is possible throughout one’s life

71
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Although early childhood years are crucial to neuroticism, the effects of the experiences are?

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reversible