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karen horney
SHE Insisted that modern culture is too
competitive and that competition leads to hostility
and feelings of isolation. T
childhood traumas
Neurotic conflict stems largely from
BASIC HOSTILITY
feelings of children toward a parent, who instead of providing
feelings of safety and security often neglect, dominate, reject, or
overindulge their children
BASIC ANXIETY
pervasive sense of apprehension brought about by a repression of basic hostility
Affection
Submissiveness
Power, prestige and possession
Withdrawal
Protective Devices against Basic Anxiety
True
insisted that neurotics do not enjoy misery and
suffering.
They cannot change their behavior by free will but must
continually and compulsively protect themselves against basic
anxiety. True or False
FalseNeurotic Needs
This defensive strategy untraps them in a vicious cycle in
which their compulsive needs to reduce basic anxiety led to
behaviors that perpetuate low self-esteem, generalized
hostility, inappropriate striving for power, inflated feelings of
superiority, and persistent apprehension, all of which result in
more basic anxiety. true or false
For affection and approval
For a powerful partner
To restrict one’s life within narrow borders
For power
To exploit others
For social recognition or prestige
For personal admiration
For ambition and personal achievement
For self-sufficiency and independence
For perfection and unassailability
what are the Neurotic Needs
Moving towards people, moving against people, moving away from people
Neurotic Trends
Moving toward people-
it refers to a neurotic need to protect oneself
against feelings of helplessness
Moving against people
they are motivated by a strong need to
exploit others and use them for their own benefit
Moving away from people
some people behave in a detached
manner and adapt a neurotic trend
intrapsychic conflicts
People also experience inner tensions or ——————— that become part of their belief system and take on a life of their own, separate from the interpersonal conflicts that created them.
Idealized Self-Image
People who do not receive love and affection
during childhood are blocked in their attempt
to acquire a stable sense of identity. Feeling
alienated from self, they create an ——————-, or an extravagantly positive
picture of themselves.
Neurotic search for glory, Neurotic Claim, Neurotic pride
Horney recognized three aspects of the
idealized self-image:
Need for perfection
they try to achieve perfection by erecting a complex
set of shoulds and should nots (tyranny of the should)
Neurotic ambition
the compulsive drive toward superiority
Neurotic claims
extreme entitlement
Neurotic Pride
A false pride based not on a realistic view of the true self but on a
spurious image of the idealized self.
Self-hatred
Neurotics dislike themselves because reality
always fails short of their idealized view of
self.
relentless demand on self
merciless self accusation
self contempt
self torture
self-destructive action and impulses
Therefore, they learn seif-hatred, which can be
expressed as:
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