Horney and Klein Quiz

Patrice thinks she is a failure: according to her assessment, her grades are bad, she is overweight, and she is unattractive. She also says she doesn't have any friends. In reality, Patrice does have friends, her grades are fine, and she is an attractive, albeit a slightly plump, young woman. Horney would say that Patrice is over-identifying with her

Despised Self.

In Horney's view, a person who adapts to the world by being compliant has adopted which style of adaptation?

Passive style

Which of the following characterizes Object Relations Theories?

Theories that have to do with how people learn about themselves and others through interactions with other people

"Basic anxiety" refers to

a child's fear of being alone

To Horney, the goal of psychoanalysis was to help the person

accept his/her "Real Self."

Karen Horney is known for her...

all of the above

According to Horney, which of the following is NOT a way of neurotically interacting with others?

all of the other options are neurotic.

Horney believed that what women really wanted was

autonomy and control.

In neo-analytic theory, a child's fear of being alone, helpless, and insecure, which arises from problems in relations with one's parents (such a lack of warmth), is termed

basic anxiety.

Karen Horney believed that women often felt inferior to men because

they were raised to see men as superior, and society denied them equal opportunity.