Our Inner Conflicts - A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS (Hardcover, New edition)

I know of no other writer today in the field of psychoanalysis with a directness, a clarity, a reasonableness devoid of professional jargon and technical trim which equals that of Karen Horney - whose New Ways in ??Psychoanalysis was an important modern contribution. Originally a Freudian, Dr. Horney has eradicated the Freudian extremes, presents psychiatric problems in recognizable, everyday terms. This book concerns various types of personalities and conflicts, reducing the basic conflict to incompatible human relationships - the neurotic moving toward, away, or against people in the too compliant, too aggressive, or over-detached types. The neurotic's false solutions or escapes (the idealized image, externalization or the shifting of responsibility to others, self deceptions and defenses, etc.); the results of unresolved conflicts, fears, waste of human energies, hopelessness, sadism, impoverishment of the personality. Dr. Horney believes that the resolution of conflicts can be accomplished only by changing those conditions within the personality that brought them into being - and this is of course largely through analysis. For the special field - but within that, outstanding. (Kirkus Reviews)

In OUR INNER CONFLICTS, Karen Horney develops a dynamic theory of neurosis centered on the basic conflict among attitudes of moving toward, moving against, and moving away from people. Karen Horney has been called one of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1999
First published:	1946
Authors:	Horney Karen
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-21098-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Physiological & neuro-psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology
LSN:	0-415-21098-4
Barcode:	9780415210980

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