Karen Horney- A Female Pioneer Of Psychology

Wackels Danielson on September 16, 1885. Captain Danielson was a religious man with

an authoritarian parenting style, he was referred to as “the Bible thrower”. Although her

father brought her gifts from around the world and let her accompany him on three sea

excursions, Karen felt that he favored her older brother Berndt. The lack of a connection

with her father made Karen become extremely close with her mother, Clotilde aka Sonni.

Clotilde was Captain Danielson’s second wife, 19 years seperated the cosmopolitan wife

When Karen was nine she changed her approach to life and became more bold and

ambitious. At the same time, Karen’s crush on her beloved teenage brother led him to

distance himself from her uncomfortable attentions. Berndt’s rejection made Karen

depressed, the first of many bouts of depression throughout her life. In 1904 Clotilde

divorced Karen’s father and left both Berndt and Karen in his care.

In 1906, Karen Horney decided to attend medical school against her parents

wishes. Contrary to societal norms, Horney attended the universities of Freiburg and

Many parents are under a lot of pressure, and may have a neurosis of their own, that

neurotic that fits this category found that neither aggression nor compliance worked as a

neurotic person would experience great anxiety. K. Horney believed that neurosis in adults

feels about themselves, while the ideal self is everything they think they should be. The

Although most children react to parental indifference with basic hostility, most are worried

Once again, a stressful year caused Karen Horney to spiral down into depressions suicidal

with survival strategies learned during childhood. A child’s first reaction to parental

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