Psychoanalytic Social Theory by Karen Horney

These flashcards cover the key concepts of Karen Horney's Psychoanalytic Social Theory, including her biographical background, major theories and ideas, and therapeutic approaches.

Psychoanalytic Social Theory

theory assumes that social and cultural conditions, especially childhood experiences, have a powerful effect on later personality.

Karen Horney

A German psychoanalyst born in 1885, she is known for her critique of Freud and development of a socially oriented view of psychoanalysis. She was one of the first women in that country admitted to medical school.

Basic Anxiety

“a feeling of being isolated and helpless in a world conceived as potentially hostile“

Protective Devices

Mechanisms individuals use to protect themselves from basic anxiety.

Affection

[protective device] people try to purchase love with self-effacing compliance, material goods, or sexual favors.

Submissiveness

[protective device] may submit themselves to either people or institutions such as an organization or a religion in order to gain affection.

POWER, Prestige, possesion

[protective device] defense against the real or imagined hostility of others, tendency to dominate others.

power, PRESTIGE, possession

[protective device] against humiliation and is expressed as the tendency to humiliate others

power, prestige, POSSESSION

[protective device] acts as a buffer against destitution/poverty and manifests itself as a tendency to deprive others.