Karen Horney

1885–1952 · German-born psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States

Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst whose later career was in the United States. She challenged parts of Freud’s theory, tracing differences between the psychology of men and women to culture rather than biology, and she is credited with founding feminist psychology. Her books for general readers include The Neurotic Personality of Our Time (1937) and Self-Analysis (1942), the source of this line.

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“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression”

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