The neurotic personality of our time

Author:
Horney, Karen 1885-1952

Place of Publication:
New York, New York

Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc


Publication Date:
1937

Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)

Media Sub-type:
Book

LoC Call Number:
RC 343 .H75 1937

Accession Number:
000882

Keyword Subject Headings:
Psychoanalysis
Neuroses
Personality

User Notes:
Paperback, 299 pp. with introduction and index Chapters: Cultural and psychological implications of neuroses Reasons for speaking of a "neurotic personality of our time" Anxiety Anxiety and hostility The basic structure of neuroses The neurotic need for affection Further characteristics of the neurotic need for affection Ways of getting affection and sensitivity to rejection The role of sexuality in the neurotic need for affection The quest for power, prestige and possession Neurotic competitiveness Recoiling from competition Neurotic guilt feelings The meaning of neurotic suffering (the problem of masochism) Culture and neurosis