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29 Cards in this Set
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Horney's childhood
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parents argued often, felt unloved by father; being in love alieviated her insecurity; at first a model child, then became rebellious; used love to escape anxiety; father domineering, often gone; second child - brother was handsome and smart
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Horney's personal life
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married a man she didn't love; had many affairs; rejected her daughters; depressed when not in a relationship; became a physician after treated kindly by one; had long affair with Erich Fromm
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comparison with Freud
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Freud called her malicious but competent, never knew Freud, but she received psychoanalytic training; disputed Freud's portrayal of women; accepted psychic determinism, unconscious motivation; Freudian terminology; childhood factors; rejects ideas of biology (penis) and thanatos
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safety need
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a higher-level need for security and freedom from fear; believed children could bounce back from traumatic experiences if this was met
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manifestations of basic evil
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preferrential treatment; breaking promises; fake in love/affection; may come from parents' neuroses; depression or biological
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basic anxiety
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a pervasive feeling of loneliness and helplessness; the foundation of neurosis
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ways to protect from basic anxiety
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securing affection, being submissive, attaining power, withdrawing
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neurotic needs
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ten irrational defenses against anxiety that become a permanent part of personality and affect behavior
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10 neurotic needs
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1) affection and approval 2) dominant partner 3) power 4) exploitation 5) prestige 6) admiration 7) achievement or ambition 8) self-sufficiency 9) perfection 10) narrow limits to life
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neurotic trends
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three categories of behaviors and attitudes toward oneself and others that express a person's needs; Horney's revision of the concept of neurotic needs
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3 neurotic trends
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movement toward people; movement against people; movement away from people
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compliant personality
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behaviors and attitudes associated with the neurotic trend of moving toward people, such as a need for affection and approval; similar to Adler's getting type
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aggressive personality
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behaviors and attitudes associated with the neurotic trend of moving against people, such as a domineering and controlling manner; similar to Adler's dominant type
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detached personality
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behaviors and attitudes associated with the neurotic trend of moving away from people, such as an intense need for privacy; similar to Adler's avoiding type
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conflict
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To Horney, the basic incompatibility of the neurotic needs; everyone has it, but more intense in the neurotics
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idealized self image
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for normal people, the self image is an idealized picture of oneself build on a flexible, realistic assessment of one's abilities. For neurotics, the self image is based on an inflexible, unrealistic self-appraisal
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tyranny of the shoulds
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an attempt to realize an unattainable idealized self-image by denying the true self and behaving in terms of what we think we should be doing
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externalization
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a way to defend against the conflict caused by the discrepancy between an idealized and a real self-image by projecting the conflict onto the outside world; similar to Freud's rationalization
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Horney's view of Oedipal complex
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conflict between dependence on parents and hostility toward them
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reasons for distrust between sexes
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fear of losing ourselves in another person; ideal partner is impossible and unrealistic - want conflicting things; always want to receive love, but too afraid to give love; paternity uncertainty
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male psychology
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women devalued as coming from Adam, sorrowful childbirth, evil temptress, inferior to men; men see women as mysterious and want to keep them subjugated to prevent gaining power
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man's view of motherhood
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envious and afraid of it; reaction formation "benevolent sexism"; womb envy; try to prove themselves through creation of ideas and science; have to get sense of achievement through other domains
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two types of women
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revered mother and evil temptress
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explanations of patriarchy
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biological, subjugate women to prevent from gaining power; tradition, religion
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feminine psychology
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To Horney, a revision of psychoanalysis to encompass the psychological conflicts inherent in the traditional ideal of womanhood and women's roles
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womb envy
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the envy males feel toward females because she can bear children and he cannot; Horney's response to penis envy in females
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neurotic competitiveness
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an indiscriminate need to win at all costs
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Compliant Aggressive Detached (CAD) inventory
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a 35-item self-report inventory to measure neurotic trends
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Horney-Coolidge Type Indicator
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a 57-item self-report inventory to measure neurotic trends
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