Neurosis and Human Growth: The struggle toward self-realization

by Karen Horney

Overview

In Neurosis and Human Growth, Dr. Horney discusses the neurotic process as a special form of the human development, the antithesis of healthy growth. She unfolds the different stages of this situation, describing neurotic claims, the tyranny or inner dictates and the neurotic's solutions for relieving the tensions of conflict in such emotional attitudes as domination, self-effacement, dependency, or resignation. Throughout, she outlines with penetrating insight the forces that work for and against the person's realization of his or her potentialities.

First Published in 1950. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415210959
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/24/1999
Series:	International Library of Psychology
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

A Morality of Evolution; Chapter 1 The Search for Glory; Chapter 2 Neurotic Claims; Chapter 3 The Tyranny of the Should; Chapter 4 Neurotic Pride; Chapter 5 Self-Hate and Self-Contempt; Chapter 6 Alienation from Self; Chapter 7 General Measures to Relieve Tension; Chapter 8 The Expansive Solutions; Chapter 9 The Self-Effacing Solution; Chapter 10 Morbid Dependency; Chapter 11 Resignation; Chapter 12 Neurotic Disturbances in Human Relationships; Chapter 13 Neurotic Disturbances in Work1A few paragraphs of this chapter are taken from a paper on the same subject published in the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1948, under the title “Inhibitions in Work.”; Chapter 14 The Road of Psychoanalytic Therapy; Chapter 15 Theoretical Considerations;