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The neurotic personality of our time

Title
The neurotic personality of our time / by Karen Horney.
Author
Horney, Karen, 1885-1952
Publication
  • New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [1937]
  • ©1937

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Description
299 pages; 22 cm
Summary
The effects of cultural environment on human personality is given close attention in Dr. Horney's portrait of the neurotic person.
Subject
  • Neuroses
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Personality
  • Psychology, Pathological
  • Neurotic Disorders
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Personality
  • Psychopathology
  • psychoanalysis
  • Psychology, Pathological
  • Neuroses
  • Neurose
  • Neurotiker
  • Psychoanalyse
  • Neurosen
  • Neuroticism
  • Neurose
  • Psychoanalyse
Note
  • "First edition."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0393310973
  • 9780393310979
LCCN
37003732
OCLC
  • ocm00643475
  • 643475
  • SCSB-123867
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library