How Did Karen Horney Contribute To Psychology

ABSTRACT
Most of us have come in contact with people who seem to successfully irritate or frighten people away with their clinginess, significant lack of self esteem, and even anger and threatening behavior.These individuals adapted this personality style through a childhood filled with anxiety. Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career.Karen Horney developed a theory of neuroses, which she defined as a manner of dealing with relationships.She identified ten categories of neurotic needs. They all include the need for compliance refers to a tendency to move towards people, manifested by a need to seek approval from others. The need for aggression refers to a tendency to go against people
Karen Horney dealt with depression early in life. She described her father as a strict disciplinarian and was very close to her older brother, Berndt. When he distanced himself from her, Horney became depressed, a problem she would deal with throughout her life. Karen Horney made significant contributions to humanism, self-psychology, psychoanalysis, and feminine psychology. Horney also believed that people were able to act as their own therapists, emphasizing the personal role each person has in their own mental health and encouraging self-analysis and
Leonard Leakey Hofstadter, PHD from the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory to further explain Karen Horney’s theory that particular parenting styles are a great influence the child’s development of personality traits. Leonard is a physicist with an extremely high IQ and is skilled with a wide range of disciplines including history, literature and science and is able to solve a complex crossword puzzle in seconds. Throughout his interpersonal relationships Leonard often seems insecure even though he is the well-adjusted amongst his genius friends. Despite the fact he is a social leader amongst his intelligent friends, he wants to urgently establish a meaningful romantic relationship and expand his social circle. As Horney explains, he self-assess much of his self-worth into how he is perceived by others and often complains about his friends’ social deprivation, especially Sheldon’s. He has a massive collection of comic and sci-fi related items, and enjoys such pastimes as playing “Halo” and “Klingon Boggle,” he finds this embarrassing and has even considered selling off his collection simply because other men his age, besides his friends have a negative social stigma regarding video