Karen Horney

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Psychoanalytic Theory

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Built on assumption that that social and cultural conditions, especially childhood experiences, are largely responsible for shaping personality

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Basic hostility

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If parents do not satisfy the child's needs for safety and satisfaction

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Basic Anxiety

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Profound feelings of insecurity and a vague sense of apprehension.

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4 general ways of people to counter feelings of being lonely

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Affection, submissiveness, power and withdrawal

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Affection

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A strategy that does not always lead to authentic love

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Submissiveness

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Neurotics may submit themselves either to people or to institution such as organizations or religions

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Power

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Tendency to dominate others

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Prestige

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Protection against humiliation and is expressed as the tendency to humiliate others

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Possession

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Tendency to deprive others

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Withdrawal

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Protect themselves from basic anxiety either to develop independence from others or by becoming emotionally detached from them

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10 neurotic needs

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Need for affection and approval, need for a powerful partner, need to restrict oneself or life, need for power, need to exploit others, need for social recognition or prestige, personal admiration, ambition and personal achievement, self sufficiency and independence, perfection

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Moving towards people

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A neurotic need to protect oneself against feelings of helplessness

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Moving Against People

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Compliant people assume that everyone is nice, aggressive people assume that everyone is hostile

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Moving away from peole

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Is an expression of needs for privacy, independence and self sufficiency

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Intraphysic Conflict

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Idealized self and self hatred

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Idealized self image

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Attempt to solve problems or conflicts by painting a good like picture of oneself

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Self hatred

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An interrelated yet equally irrational and powerful tendency to despise one's real self

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3 aspects of idealized self image

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Neurotic search for glory, neurotic claims and neurotic pride

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The neurotic search for glory

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Idealized self begin to incorporate it into all aspects of their lives; their goals, their self concept and their relationship with others

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3 elements of neurotic search for glory

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Need for perfection, neurotic ambition, drive towards a vindictive triumph.

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Need for power

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Drive to mold the whole personality into an idealized self

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Tyranny of should

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Achieve perfection by erecting a complex set of shoulds and should not

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Neurotic ambition

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Drive towards superiority

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Drive towards a vindictive triumph

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The most destructive element of all

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Neurotic claims

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Build a fantasy world that is out of sync with the real world

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Neurotic Pride

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A false pride based not on a realistic view of a true self but on a spurious image of idealized self