A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney - Hardcover

Quinn, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671475185 ISBN 13: 9780671475185

Publisher: Summit Books, 1987

Synopsis

Reveals Horney's personal and professional struggle, from the time she took issue with Freud's ideas in 1920 Berlin through her exclusion from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 1941

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From Library Journal:

Here, Quinn examines gifted clinician/writer Karen Horney, a psychoanalytic "renegade" eventually cast out of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute when she ran afoul of the new orthodoxy. The author sensitively traces the enormous loss both to the establishment and also to Horney and her new group, which became autocratic in its own right. Of all the recent accounts of psychoanalytic politics, this is one of the best. Although clearly partial to Horney, it is relatively even-handed in its presentation of the failings and strengths on both sides, and examines issues in depth. Of great interest to both scholar and layperson. Paul Hymowitz, Cornell Medical Coll., New York
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From Publishers Weekly:

"This intimate portrait of the feminist psychoanalyst who shook the Freudian establishment links the inner woman to the public figure, rebel and maverick," declared PW , calling the book "the fullest, most insightful biography of Horney to date." Photos.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Summit Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0671475185
• ISBN 13: 9780671475185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 479