Karen Horney and Character Disorder: A Guide for the Modern Practitioner
The revolutionary contributions of psychoanalyst Karen Horney hold special interest for today’s clinician. Her focus on the present-oriented treatment of character pathology offers the once-per-week practitioner a means of conducting meaningful deep treatment. And Horney’s feminist orientation and break from Freudians makes her a palatably critical analyst for the ages.
Through his use of clinical illustration, precise Horneyan interpretation and the application of Horney’s optimistic attitude toward patient change and growth, Dr. Solomon prepares practitioners to conduct Horneyan therapy and successfully treat character disorder, the most common dysfunction of our time.
Karen Horney: Pioneer Of Feminine Psychology (Women in Medicine)
Grade 9 Up–This series presents biographies of women who endured rampant stereotyping, ostracism, and the medical communities' skepticism to become leaders in their fields. Each book has a centerfold of photographs of the subject, her family, friends and coworkers. The books are well organized and written in a way that will attract general readers. All quotes are documented. Horney criticized Freud because of his focus on a male-dominated society and a male point of view.
Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis
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.
Renowned for her contributions to psychoanalytic theory, Karen Horney was also a gifted clinician and teacher of analysts. This book--a collection of her writings and lectures on analytic technique--provides the most complete record to date of Horney`s ideas about the therapeutic process. With insights far ahead of her time, Horney addresses issues that continue to concern practicing analysts.
