KAREN (HORNEY) DANIELSON

BIOGRAPHY

• Born in Hamburg, Germany 1885
• Father was a strict disciplinarian
• Closer to her mother and brother
• Suffered from depression
• Eventually married a young lawyer
• Death of he mother 1911 and the death of her brother 1923
• Moved to the United States eventually got a divorce

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

NEUROSIS

• Functional mental disorders
• Interpersonal controlling and coping technique
• Parental indifference was the cause
• Ten patterns of neurotic needs
• Best existing work today

NEO-FREUDIANISM

• Follower of Sigmund Freud although she criticized his work
• Womb envy
• Desexualized Freud's Oedipal complex/result of anxiety
• One of the few woman whose theories were presented in books at the time
• Feminine psychology
• Influential to self-psychologist, humanist, cognitive therapist, psychoanalyst feminist, and existentialist