Psychology / Unit 10 Psych 1115 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Horney's Basic Anxiety
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The idea
Horney held that personality develops from strategies for managing the basic anxiety of childhood insecurity.
In practice
A person consistently moves toward others, seeking approval, as a strategy formed in an insecure childhood.
Where people slip
Horney directly challenged Freud's account of women's development, a critique the field eventually adopted.
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