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Karen Horney
(16 Sep 1885 - 4 Dec 1952)
German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst who was a specialist on neuroses and how they grow. She disputed Freud's belief that mental ills were the result of thwarted basic drives.
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Science Quotes by Karen Horney (4)
A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.
— Karen Horney
Quoted in obituary, Time magazine (15 Dec 1952).
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
— Karen Horney
The Collected Works of Karen Horney (1957), 154.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
— Karen Horney
Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis (1945, 1999), 240.
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men. (1926)
— Karen Horney
The Flight from Womanhood', Femine Psychology (1967). Quoted in Elaine Partnow, The Quotable Woman, 1800-1975 (1977), 197.
