Karen Horney

Standard Name: Horney, Karen
Used Form: Karen Danielsen Horney

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Textual Features Adrienne Rich
From 1972 to 1976, the period just before this text was published, AR read extensively through the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis: authors studied include Freud, Jung, Melanie Klein, Karen Horney

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16 September 1885: Karen Danielsen Horney was born at Blankenese,...

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16 September 1885

Karen Danielsen Horney was born at Blankenese, a village near Hamburg, Germany.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 145
Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
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1906: Karen Danielsen (later famous as Karen Horney,...

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1906

Karen Danielsen (later famous as Karen Horney, a feminist psychoanalyst resident in the USA) attended medical school at Freiburg in Germany.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 147
Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
488

1909-1913: Karen Danielsen (later Karen Horney) studied...

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1909-1913

Karen Danielsen (later Karen Horney) studied for her medical degree at the University of Berlin ; she completed her training having gained credit as an outstanding student.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 147

31 October 1909: Karen Danielsen, still a student but later...

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31 October 1909

Karen Danielsen, still a student but later famous as a psychologist, married Oskar Horney.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 147
Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
488

: Karen Horney, after completing one year of...

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Summer 1910

Karen Horney, after completing one year of her medical degree at the University of Berlin, was distressed to discover she was pregnant.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 147

1912: Karen Horney worked at Privat-Heil-und-Pflegeanstalt...

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1912

Karen Horney worked at Privat-Heil-und-Pflegeanstalt hur Weibliche Giesteskranke (Private Health and Care Institution / Mental Hospital for Women).
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 148

1917: Karen Horney presented a paper to the Artzliche...

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1917

Karen Horney presented a paper to the Artzliche Gesellishaft fur Sexualwissenschaft (Medical Society for Sexuality) called The Technique of Psychoanalytic Therapy.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 149

1918: Karen Horney began teaching at the Berlin...

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1918

Karen Horney began teaching at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute as a specialist in psychoanalysis; she held this position until she moved to the USA in 1932.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 149

1924: Karen Horney introduced the concepts of primary...

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1924

Karen Horney introduced the concepts of primary and secondary penis envy.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 149

1932: Karen Horney moved from Berlin to the United...

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1932

Karen Horney moved from Berlin to the United States, where she worked with Franz Alexander as an associate director at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 150
Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
488

1934: Karen Horney moved from Chicago to New York,...

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1934

Karen Horney moved from Chicago to New York, where she worked at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 150

1937: Karen Horney published The Neurotic Personality...

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1937

Karen Horney published The Neurotic Personality of our Time.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 152

1939: Karen Horney published New Ways in Psych...

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1939

Karen Horney published New Ways in Psychoanalysis.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 152

1941: Psychiatrist Karen Horney founded the Association...

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1941

Psychiatrist Karen Horney founded the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and the American Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
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29 April 1941: The membership of the New York Psychoanalytic...

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29 April 1941

The membership of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute voted to restrict the activities of Karen Horney, because of her radical psychological ideas.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 151

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