“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“[Neurotic] pride is both so vulnerable and so precious that it also must be protected in the future. The neurotic may build… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable in the… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
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