Neurosis and Human Growth
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Neurosis and Human Growth
Devon Jones
Ocean County College
Professor Lavender
Psych-174-DL1
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Abstract
Karen Horney specifically talks about the neurotic’s way of living in Neurosis and Human Growth. Giving us an understanding on the differences between how a neurotic thinks, feels, and does, between a healthier individual. Karen Horney leads the reader through the Neurotic’s life starting with self –fulfillment and ending with love and relationships. She leads you into grasping “self-understanding” and the understanding of humans and their relationships. Self-actualization and the “idealized” self is something we strive towards daily, and could eventually lead into break downs if not reached by our time frame. Keywords: Neurotic, neurosis, self-understanding, idealized
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Neurosis and Human Growth
Neurosis and Human Growth, written by psychologist Karen Horney in the year 1991, is a compilation of ideas and information regarding the neurotic brain, personal gain, and the steps to achieving a main goal; complete happiness. Karen Horney guides you through the process and explains the neurotic brain in a way in which one can relate. Horney identifies neurosis as a coping mechanism that is a larger part in life. The need for power, affection, the need for social prestige, and the need for independence are all stressed relatively in the reading. Arguing the effects that anxiety has on an individual who is searching for social and inner gratification can be detrimental to the influence that is involved. Questioning some of Freud’s ideas, she incorporates both of his influence to the psychological world, and his experiments into her theories and ideas, however, based on some of her childhood experiences, Horney also develops her own theories of personality that differed from Freud’s.
No matter what environment a
Neurosis and Human Growth
Devon Jones
Ocean County College
Professor Lavender
Psych-174-DL1
Running Head: neurosis and Human Growth 2
Abstract
Karen Horney specifically talks about the neurotic’s way of living in Neurosis and Human Growth. Giving us an understanding on the differences between how a neurotic thinks, feels, and does, between a healthier individual. Karen Horney leads the reader through the Neurotic’s life starting with self –fulfillment and ending with love and relationships. She leads you into grasping “self-understanding” and the understanding of humans and their relationships. Self-actualization and the “idealized” self is something we strive towards daily, and could eventually lead into break downs if not reached by our time frame. Keywords: Neurotic, neurosis, self-understanding, idealized
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Neurosis and Human Growth
Neurosis and Human Growth, written by psychologist Karen Horney in the year 1991, is a compilation of ideas and information regarding the neurotic brain, personal gain, and the steps to achieving a main goal; complete happiness. Karen Horney guides you through the process and explains the neurotic brain in a way in which one can relate. Horney identifies neurosis as a coping mechanism that is a larger part in life. The need for power, affection, the need for social prestige, and the need for independence are all stressed relatively in the reading. Arguing the effects that anxiety has on an individual who is searching for social and inner gratification can be detrimental to the influence that is involved. Questioning some of Freud’s ideas, she incorporates both of his influence to the psychological world, and his experiments into her theories and ideas, however, based on some of her childhood experiences, Horney also develops her own theories of personality that differed from Freud’s.
No matter what environment a
Cited: Horney, K. (1991). Neurosis and human growth, the struggle toward self-realization. W. W. Norton & Company.