M2 Week 7: Horney Flashcards
In 1950, Horney published her most
important book, ________ ?
Neurosis and Human Growth
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
After World War 1, Horney lived a
prosperous, suburban lifestyle
TRUE
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
Klein and Horney were not psychoanalyzed by Karl Abraham
False; they were both psychoanalyzed
In 1932, Horney became associate
director of the newly established ___________
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
What book made Karen the leader of an opposition group, Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
(AAP)?
New Ways in Psychoanalysis
In 1906, Horney entered the ____ becoming one of the 1st
women in Germany to study medicine
University of Freiburg
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
Horney stressed that psychoanalysis should move beyond instinct theory and emphasize the importance of
cultural influences in shaping
personality.
TRUE
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
The theory of Karen Horney assumes that social and cultural conditions especially childhood experiences are not responsible for shaping personality.
False; they are largely responsible
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
GENUINE LOVE can be healthy,
growth-producing experience but
DESPERATE LOVE provides fertile
ground for development of neuroses.
TRUE
It is when children repress
their hostility toward their parents that leads to profound feelings of insecurity and a vague sense of apprehension called _________
Basic Anxiety
Competitiveness and the basic
hostility result in _________
FEELINGS OF ISOLATION
If parents do not satisfy the child’s need for safety and satisfaction, the
child develops ________ toward the parents
Basic Hostility
A strategy that does not always lead to authentic love.
Affection
It is a defense against real or imagined hostility of others and takes the form of a tendency to dominate others
Power
It submits either to people or to institutions such as an organization or a religion.
Submissiveness
It is a protection against humiliation and is expressed as a tendency to humiliate others.
Prestige
It acts as a buffer against
destitution and poverty and manifests itself as a tendency to deprive others.
Possession
It developed an independence from others or by becoming emotionally detached from them.
Withdrawal
Feelings of isolation in a potentially hostile world led to intensified which make people overvalue love.
NEED FOR AFFECTION
Children needs genuine love and healthy discipline that would provide them with feelings of ____ and ________ and permit them to grow in accordance with their real self.
Safety and Satisfaction
They live up to the expectations of others, tend to dread self-assertion and are quite uncomfortable with the hostility of others as well as the hostile feelings within themselves
Neurotic Need for Affection and Approval
They have the strong drive to be the best.
Neurotic Need for Ambition and Personal Achievement
They have an overvaluation of love and a dread of being alone or deserted.
Neurotic Need for Powerful Partner
They strive to remain inconspicuous, to take second place and to be content with very little.
Neurotic Need to Restrict One’s Life within Narrow Borders
They usually combined with the needs for prestige and possession and manifest itself as the need to control others and to avoid feelings of weakness or stupidity.
Neurotic Need for Power
They frequently evaluate others based on how they can be used or exploited but at the same time, they fear being exploited by others
Neurotic Need to Exploit Others
Some people combat basic anxiety by trying to be first, to be important, or to attract attention to themselves.
Neurotic Need for Social Recognition or Prestige
They have a need to be admired for what they are rather for what they possess.
Neurotic Need for Personal Admiration
They need to move away from people proving that they can get along without others.
Neurotic Need for Self-Sufficiency and Independence
They dread mistakes and having personal flaws, they desperately attempt to hide their weaknesses from others.
Neurotic Need for Perfection and Unassailability
TRUE OR FALSE:
Children move toward against people with acts of AGGRESSION to circumvent the hostility of others
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE:
Children move toward people by behaving in a COMPLIANT manner as protection against **feelings of helplessness **
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE:
Children move toward from people by adopting a DETACHED MANNER, thus alleviating feelings of isolation
False; they move away
They are willing to subordinate themselves to others to see others as more intelligent or attractive and to rate themselves according to what others think of them.
Moving Toward People
They value freedom and self-sufficiency and often appear to be aloof and unapproachable.
Moving Away From People
It originate from interpersonal experiences but as they become part of a person’s belief system, they develop a life of their own - an existence separate from the interpersonal conflicts that gave them life
Intrapsychic Processes
Result in neurotics’ attempts to build a godlike picture of themselves.
Idealized Self-Image
Erecting complex set of should and should nots.
Tyranny of the Should
The compulsive drive toward superiority.
Neurotic Ambition
Refers to the drive to mold the whole personality into the idealized self.
The Need for Perfection
Maybe disguised as a drive for success but its chief aim is to put others to shame or defeat them through one’s very success; of to attain the power to inflict suffering on them– mostly of a humiliating kind.
Drive Toward A Vindictive Triumph
They believe that they are special and therefore entitled to be treated in accordance with their idealized view of themselves and fail to see that they are unreasonable.
Idealized Self-Image: Neurotic Claims
Neurotics build a fantasy world - a world that is out of sync with the real world.
Idealized Self-Image: Neurotic Claims
They imagine themselves to be glorious, wonderful and perfect so when others fail to treat them with special consideration, their neurotic pride is hurt.
Idealized Self-Image: Neurotic Pride
It is a false pride based not on a realistic view of the true self but on a spurious image of the idealized self.
Idealized Self-Image: Neurotic Pride
Since the idealized self can never be happy with themselves especially when they realize that their real self does not match the insatiable demands of their idealized self, they will begin to hate and despise themselves.
Self-Hatred
Belittling, disparaging, doubting, discrediting, and ridiculing oneself.
Self-Contempt
Tyranny of the should
Relentless Demands on The Self
They berate themselves.
Merciless Self-Accusation
Postponing or forgoing pleasurable activities to achieve reasonable goals.
Self-Frustration
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
Basic anxiety is the core of man’s need to subjugate women and women’s wish to humiliate men.
TRUE
Self-Torment/Self-Torture
Physical or psychological, conscious or unconscious, acute or chronic, carried out in action or enacted only in the imagination.
Self-Destructive Actions and Impulses
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
The goal of Horneyan therapy is to help patients gradually grow in the direction of self-realization.
TRUE
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
Horney recognized the existence of Oedipus Complex, but it is due to biological conditions and not to environment.
False; it is due to environmental conditions and not to biology
TRUE OR FALSE:
Horney disagreed with Adler that many women possess a MASCULINE PROTEST that they have a pathological belief that men are superior to women.
False; She agreed with Adler
Below are Horney’s Concepts of Humanity except:
- FREE CHOICE
- PESSIMISTIC
- CAUSALITY AND TELEOLOGY -
* CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS
* Social
* Similarities
PESSIMISTIC
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
Low levels of neuroticism are associated with experiencing more negative emotion and being more likely to develop generalized anxiety disorder.
False; High Levels of Neuroticism
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
Neuroticism is associated with setting avoidance goals in which a person avoids negative outcomes rather than setting approach goals in which a person approaches positive outcomes
TRUE
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
People can use each of the neurotic trends to solve basic conflict, but these solutions are essentially nonproductive or neurotic.
TRUE
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
PENIS ENVY is the same as boys desire a breast or a womb.
TRUE
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
Horney retained a compulsive need to merge with a great man.
TRUE
AAP became ____
Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute
Below are the Critique of Horney except:
- The strength of Horney’s theory is her lucid portrayal of the neurotic personality.
- High on generate research
- Low on falsifiability.
- High to organize knowledge
- Guide to Action - high
- Generally, internally consistent
- Parsimonious theory.
High on generate research
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
Karen felt hostility with her mother whom she regards as religious hypocrite and idolized her father.
False; felt hostility towards his father and idolized her mother
**TRUE OR FALSE: **
People high in neuroticism are constantly drawn toward avoidance goals and dealing with basic anxiety by using all the detrimental neurotic defenses described by Horney.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE:
Successful therapy is when patients gradually develop confidence in their ability to assume responsibility for their psychological development.
TRUE
