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Chapter 5: Horney
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
04/18/2012

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educational background
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-trained in freudian tradition

-Berlin Psychoanalytic institute
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Horney: biography
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-born in germany, 1885

-father thought women = inferior."bible thrower"
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basic needs of children
Definition
safety

satisfaction
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basic evil
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behavior towards children that undermines the child's security

-indifference to the child
-ridicule
-humiliation
-isolation
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basic hostility
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-child is abused by parents in many diff ways
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basic anxiety
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-convinced that everything and everyone is dangerous, due to abuse experienced by parents + unresolved hostility
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10 neurotic trends: page 131
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-need for affection and approval

-need for perfection

-need for a partner who will run ones life

-need to live ones life within narrow limits

-need for power

-need to exploit others

-need for social recognition and prestige

-need for personal admiration

-need for ambition and personal achievement

-need for self-sufficiency and independence
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moving toward people
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COMPLIANT

-neurotic needs for affection and approval,a dominant person in life, and a need to live within narrow limits

-based on basic hostility and anxiety
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moving against people
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-HOSTILE TYPE

-need for power, exploitation of others, for prestige, and personal achievement
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Moving away from people
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-DETACHED TYPE

-self-sufficiency, independence, perfection
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real self
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-view of self that is healthy and positive for growth
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idealized self
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-the distorted view of oneself as being unworthy
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externalization
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-tendency to experience internalprocesses as if they occurred outside oneself

-blame other factors for failures
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tyranny of the should
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-person's life is driven by what should be an
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blind spots
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ignoring certain aspects of life/experience because they are not in accordance to idealized self image
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compartmentalization
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dividing life into different compartment and assigning different components for each
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rationalization
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-self-deception that involves giving logical and inaccurate excuses to justify failures
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arbitrary rightness
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-declares that one's right + That the argument must be over.
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Elusiveness
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-opposite of arbitrary rightness

-seldom makes a decision about anything

-if one is not committed to anything, then they cannot be wrong
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Cynicism
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previous repeated failures having to do with beliefs

-choose not to have a belief system so that they can make fun of others and do whatever they please
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