After Karen’s mom died in 1911, he marriage then failed and forced her to move to Brooklyn, New York. That’s when she found out that her brother died in 1930. The strain of these events were very hard on her, so she decided to enter psychoanalysis, but this caused a deep depression within her that also, made her want to commit suicide.

yn after all Karen’s hardships, she became secretary of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. From there, she went to Chicago to attend the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis where she became the Assistant Director. When her time was up at the Institute, Karen went right back to New York to lecture at the new school for social research. In 1941, she founded her own school called The American Institute of Psychoanalysis. She became the first woman whom found an independent psychoanalytic society. She contributed to many neofroidian theories, such as her theory of neurosis and famine psychology.

Karen had one more way of looking at neurosis in terms of self-images. She explains that the self is the core of your being, your potential. This means, if you were healthy, you would have an accurate idea of who you are. You would then,

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