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11 quotes by Karen Horney

Karen Horney Karen Horney Born 16 September 1885 Blankenese, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, German Empire (now Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany) Died 4 December 1952 (Aged 67) New York City, New York, USA Nationality German Fields Psychoanalyst Part of a series of articles on Psychoanalysis Concepts Psychosexual development Psychosocial development (Erikson) Unconscious Preconscious Consciousness Psychic apparatus Id, ego and super-ego Libido Drive...
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When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the... →

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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

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Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

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The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

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