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Horney's Basic Anxiety

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Horney held that personality develops from strategies for managing the basic anxiety of childhood insecurity.

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A person consistently moves toward others, seeking approval, as a strategy formed in an insecure childhood.

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Horney directly challenged Freud's account of women's development, a critique the field eventually adopted.

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