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.
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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.
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Karen Hornay, M.D. explains her theories behind psychological conflicts and their symptoms. She states the 3 basic conflicts are moving toward people, moving against people and moving away from people as a result of experiencing fearful situations and destructive parental influences in childhood. These conlicts create certain attitudes such as the compliant type, the hostile type and the detached type. These defenses are a maladaptive attempt at solution of the original conflicts and further complicate the neurosis. She goes on to discuss the idealized image, hopelessness, externalization , impoverishment of personality, fears, and the results of treatment. One of the first psychoanalysts to dissent from some of Freud's basic theories of the etiology of psychopathology,