This volume of essays provides a record of Karen Horney's ideas about the therapeutic process. She discusses countertransference phenomena and the ways in which a therapist's personality can... (more)
Explains the nature, schools, procedures, and goals of psychoanalysis to assi the prospective patient in understanding, accepting, and successfully experiencing the therapeutic process. (more)
Topics discussed include: frigidity, maternal conflicts, distrust between the sexes and feminine masochism.
Addressed to the author's class of psychoanalysts in training during the last year of her life, these lectures focus on: the patient-therapist relationship; the process of psychoanalysis from the... (more)
Develops a dynamic theory of neurosis centred on the basic conflict between moving among, away from, or against other people.
This text discusses how individuals can use the techniques of psychoanalysis to solve problems on their own. It covers topics such as: the way neuroses work; the different stages of psychoanalytical... (more)
In this reissue of her classic work, Karen Horney explores the basic structure of neurosis in the context of cultural assumptions. Her topics range from the neurotic need for affection, to guilt... (more)
Reissued in a new format as a special 40th anniversary edition, Karen Horney's study offers insights into the neurotic processes of 'coping' (viewed as a special form of human development) and... (more)