Chapter 6 Horney's Three Interpersonal Orientations

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During chapter 6 Horney talks about the three interpersonal orientations that a person has. The three interpersonal orientations that he talks about are is how a healthy person should be able to move towards people, move against them, or move away from them. I think that the interpersonal orientation that Horney discusses during this chapter that best describes me would be his moving against people. I am a complete perfectionist, I like everything done my way and I think that if I don’t do it myself than it won’t be the way that I like it and I will have to do it all over again. I like to be in control and have complete power of the things that go on in my life. Also my whole life I always had troubles getting close with people and creating

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