PSY 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Karen Horney, Neurosis, Psychoanalysis
6 Nov 2018
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Children learn early on that their needs, their safety and their comfort are wholly dependent on the powerful, authoritative and often manipulative giants" such as parents. K. horney felt that the basic evil" . Which lies at the source of later neurosis is an indifferent, perhaps hostile, or rejecting attitude of the parents toward the child. The main reason a child does not receive enough warmth and affection, however, lies in the parents" incapacity to give it on account of their own neuroses. Parental indifference, inconsistency and interference create within a child an attitude of basic hostility . Its not that your parents hate you, but from the perspective from the child, they feel unseen or unheard - it is crucial that we engage kids. Like adults, children sense the injustice of their treatment at the hands of emotionally manipulative elders. Unfortunatrely they are in no position to alter the circumstances by direct expression of hostility and anger.
