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Individualism and Moral Character - Karen Horney's Depth Psychology (Paperback)
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Individualism and Moral Character - Karen Horney's Depth Psychology (Paperback)
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There are hundreds of different systems of psychotherapy today,
ranging from the traditional "talking cure" to symbolic
"re-birthing" and primal scream. The landscape is littered with
serious social science, pop psychology, esoteric doctrine, and pure
charlatanism. One of the obvious dangers of so many choices is that
the best therapies may be lost in a profusion of competing schools
and traditions. To some extent, this has been the fate of the
school of psychotherapy developed by Karen Horney. Since her death
in 1952, Horney's work has received insufficient attention, in part
because criticism of Freud's thought may have tainted attitudes
toward psychotherapy in general. Jeff Mitchell argues that Karen
Horney's school of psychoanalysis constitutes a highly innovative
moral psychology. He interprets her approach to the treatment of
personality or character disorders as a form of moral education.
Drawing on research in the social sciences, particularly
anthropology, sociology, and psychology, Mitchell argues that
Horney's reworking of Freud's thinking preserves and builds upon
what was truly insightful in his work, and eliminates the most
dubious elements. Her thinking acknowledges that today individuals
achieve their own identities rather than accepting what was
ascribed to them by birth. This makes Karen Horney's theories
especially relevant, both for psychotherapy as well as to thought
about human affairs in general.
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