New ways in psychoanalysis / Karen Horney, M.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horney, Karen, 1885-1952

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

313 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Summary:

Challenging significant assumptions of both the psychoanalytic establishment and its surrounding culture, Karen Horney greatly extended the boundaries of Freud's theories and made the concepts and benefits of psychiatry available to a wider public. Horney's influential approach to psychiatry emphasizes present instead of past relationships and environment instead of biological determinism. Her theories have made a major contribution to psychological theory and practice, especially in the study of personality, and she was the first important psychoanalyst to challenge Freud's culture-bound views of women.

In New Ways in Psychoanalysis, Horney sets forth a model for the origin and structure of neurosis that explains how neuroses represent a struggle for life under adverse conditions and how psychotherapy can help us free ourselves from maladaptive ideas and behavior. Using examples from her practice and writing in clear, accessible prose, she illuminates psychological processes with insight and empathy.

Contents:

I. Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis 17

II. Some General Premises of Freud's Thinking 37

III. The Libido Theory 47

IV. The Oedipus Complex 79

V. The Concept of Narcissism 88

VI. Feminine Psychology 101

VII. The Death Instinct 120

VIII. The Emphasis on Childhood 133

IX. The Concept of Transference 154

X. Culture and Neuroses 168

XI. The "EGO" and the "ID" 183

XII. Anxiety 193

XIII. The Concept of the "Super-Ego" 207

XIV. Neurotic Guilt Feelings 232

XV. Masochistic Phenomena 246

XVI. Psychoanalytic Therapy 276.

Notes:

"Copyright renewed 1966"--T.p. verso.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton, c1939.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0393312305

OCLC:

45046609