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By Irving Solomon PhD

ISBN-10: 0826129951

ISBN-13: 9780826129956

Who is Karen Horney and why are her psychoanalytic principles so vital in present day global of once-per-week dynamic psychotherapy? Horney used to be one of many first analysts to problem easy Freudian assertions equivalent to the psychoanalytic account of lady improvement. She had a innovative specialise in present-oriented therapy, and a powerfully-optimistic perspective towards sufferer development and change.

    This book:

  1. introduces, defines, and illustrates the most important tenets of Horney's concept and technique
  2. discusses Horney's technique of fostering an confident perspective that strengthens remedy among therapist and the patient
  3. demonstrates the targeted suitablity and the effectiveness of Horney's rules as they're utilized to personality ailment and to trendy so much common type of remedy: once-per-week consultation psychotherapy
  4. presents criticisms of Horney's ideas

Dr. Irving Solomon prepares practitioners to behavior Horneyan remedy and effectively deal with personality affliction, the commonest disorder of our time. Dr. Solomon offers, in a concise and arranged type, Karen Horney's principles relating to personality psychopathology, observed via many illustrative vignettes for functional software. cutting-edge clinician will locate that Horney's orientation presents a way of carrying out short remedy that also is meaningfully deep.

This e-book could be of curiosity to psychological wellbeing and fitness execs, in addition to to put people who search wisdom of the self, because it realistically, vividly, and authoritatively touches on a large number of universal, simply famous personality traits that destructively complicate our well-being.

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Horneyan Theory and Clinical Insights 39 She wouldn’t accept his real explanation that he had to work the next day and drive a very long distance to his job whereas she could sleep throughout the entire day. Rage, of course, can be directed against oneself as well as directed outwardly, as the next vignette demonstrates. The vignette also offers an instance where generosity subtly masks rage and/or anger at the same time. Horney (1937, p. 36) remarks, there is a marked contradiction between their wish for affection and their own capacity for feeling or giving it.

Milton could accept responsibility for perpetuating his hopelessness. He could now also perceive the virtues of his wife and daughter and not be driven so compulsively to be a vindictive judge of others. Finally, with the lifting of his depression, he could involve himself in outside interests, such as photography, which utilized his excellent, critical intelligence and passionate 32 KAREN HORNEY AND CHARACTER DISORDER enthusiasm. More importantly, the patient was firmly convinced that he truly “owned” his real self, his goodness, and since he no longer perceived others transferentially as persecutors they could not take any success he obtained away from him.

She saw him as self-centered, caring only about money and his work. She felt, he did not make time for her. In actuality, Laurie had shifted her own narcissism to her husband. She did very little at home and indulged her appetite for jewelry through massive purchases on E-Bay. When her husband was available during normal day and evening hours, Laurie was asleep because she had remained awake during almost the entire night. She justified her strange waking and sleeping cycle by claiming that she had never been able to shift her former job’s night hours to the normal wake-sleep cycle.

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