... only did Horney challenge Freud's psychosexual view of personality, she pioneered a new dimension to psychological thought: gender-based psychology. By doing so however she overlooked a critical influence on personality, namely biology and genetics. John Bowlby's (1907 – 1990) theory of personality, whilst similar, took another view. While agreeing with Horney that childhood is critical for personality development, and that parents play ... developmentalists Thomas and Chess in 1960s showed how a parent's synchrony with their infant can actually override an infant's temperament proble...

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