PSY 20673 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Melanie Klein, Karen Horney, Feminine Psychology
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Horney: psychoanalytic social theory: overview of horney"s psychoanalytic social theory. Karen horney"s psychoanalytic social theory, assumes that social and cultural conditions, especially during childhood, have a powerful effect on later personality. Like melanie klein, horney accepted many of freud"s observations, but she objected to most of his interpretations, including his notions on feminine psychology. Karen horney, who was born in germany in 1885, was one of the first women in that country admitted to medical school. There, she became acquainted with freudian theory and eventually became a psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist. Germany to settle in the united states, first in chicago and then in. She soon abandoned orthodox psychoanalysis in favor of a more socially oriented theory one that had a more positive view of feminine development. Although horney"s writings deal mostly with what she called neuroses and neurotic personalities, her theories are also appropriate to normal development.
