Psychoanalytic Social Theory

Karen Horney’s Psychoanalytic Social Theory

Ten Neurotic

Idealized Self Image

Parenting Styles

Needs Attachment Neurotic Trends *Neurotic need :

Theory 1. Neurotic Search for Glory

1. For affection affection and approval

Moving

2. Neurotic

2. For a powerful

Toward

Claims

partner

People

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3. To restricts one’s

4. For Power

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People

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Safety

Moving

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Safe-base for

6. For social

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Authoritative

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Authoritarian

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Permissive

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Uninvolved

exploration

away from People

5. To Exploit Others

3. Neurotic Pride

Against

life with narrow boundaries

Moving

John Bowlby [theoretical work]

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Internal working models

recognition or prestige 7. For personal admiration Mary Ainsworth 8. For Ambition

[empirical work]

and personal achievement 9. For Self

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Secure

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Anxiousavoidant

Sufficiency 

10. For perfection and unassailability

Anxious ambivalent