Karen Horney (1885-1952), a brilliant American psychoanalyst of German origin, was interested in taking into account cultural and social causes, in addition to the conflicts of early childhood, when considering the constitution of a personality.
She conceived what is now one of the most used personality typologies in the therapy field1. She described features observable both in the normal character and, in an exacerbated form, in pathological situations. This is a common point between th...
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