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•Most neurotic conflict stems from childhood traumas, most of which are traced to lack of genuine love.
••Unfortunately, parents often neglect, dominate, reject, or overindulge a child, conditions that lead to feelings of basic hostility toward the parents.
•However, children often repress their feelings of basic hostility…
•Neurotics frequently are trapped in a vicious cycle in which their compulsive need to reduce basic anxiety leads to a variety of self-defeating behaviors.
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| Competitive and Hostile Societies |
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•Horney insisted that modern culture is too competitive and that competition leads to hostility and feelings of isolation.
•These conditions lead to exaggerated needs for affection and cause people to overvalue love. |
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•Most neurotic conflict stems from childhood traumas, most of which are traced to lack of genuine love.
•Children who do not receive genuine affection feel threatened and adopt rigid behavioral patterns in an attempt to gain love. |
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npeople experience inner tensions or intrapsychic conflicts.
nThese intrapsychic conflicts become part of people's belief system and take on a life of their own, separate from the interpersonal conflicts that created them.
nThe two most significant are:
nIdealized Self Image &
nSelf Hatred |
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•The natural tendency toward self-realization is impeded by negative influences, which blocks the ability to acquire a stable sense of identity.
•Feeling alienated from self, they create an idealized self-image.
•An extravagantly positive picture of themselves that exists only in their mind.
Has three parts |
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| Neurotic Search For Glory |
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The Neurotic Search for Glory.
3 Elements:
–The Need For Perfection: The Drive to mold the whole personality into the Idealized Self.
–Neurotic Ambition: The compulsive drive toward superiority, the need to excel at everything.
The Drive Toward a Vindictive Triumph: “its chief aim is to put others to shame or defeat them through one’s own very success |
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–Neurotic people believe that their idealized fantasy world is real and that the rest of the world is skewed.
–Consequently, they believe that they are entitled to special privileges.
–They make neurotic claimson other people that are consistent with their idealized view of themselves. |
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–The idealized self-image is neurotic pride, or a false pride based on a distorted and idealized view of self.
–This is usually loudly proclaimed in order to protect and support a glorified view of one’s self.
–Neurotics imagine themselves as glorious and avoid people that do not yield to this claim. |
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•Is part of/consequence of IdealSelfImage
–Neurotic individuals dislike themselves because reality always falls short of their idealized view of self.
–Therefore, they learn self-hatred, which can be expressed as:
– (1) relentless demands on self: I Should be Perfect!!
– (2) merciless self-accusation: I’m a Fraud!!
– (3) self-contempt: I’m an Idiot!!
– (4) self-frustration: I don’t deserve anything!!
– (5) self-torment or self-torture: I deserve to be harmed!!
– (6) self-destructive actions and impulses: I must destroy myself!! |
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•The goal of Horney's psychotherapy was to help patients grow toward self-realization by:
•Giving up their idealized self-image
•Relinquishing neurotic search for glory
•Changing self-hatred to self-acceptance |
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–Agreed with Adler on the masculine protest that some women pathologically believe men are superior. She believed this not as an expression of penis envy but as a desire to have the privileges of being male |
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