Women’s psychology: Karen Horney

The book of the outstanding German-American psychologist Karen Horney includes one of her most popular works “Women’s Psychology”.
In his famous book, Horney is trying to correct the unilaterality of the psychoanalytic theory associated with the predominance of a male point of view on psychology, including the psychology of a woman. Until now, the “psychology of women” has been considered exclusively from the perspective of men. Thanks to this, the traditional psychoanalytic picture of female development neither on yota does not differ from the typical ideas of boys about girls.
The author shows the one -sidedness and failure of this point of view on female psychology and shows the versatility of relations between the sexes, reflects on how women are changing, choosing classes that were previously considered male.
The book affects not only specific topics, such as Oedipov complex, female frigidity, social inequality of women, castration complex, sexual disorders, but also more general questions: influence of …

Author
Horney Karen
Translator
Bokovikov A.M., Panfilova T.V.
Publisher
Academic project, 2009
Series
Psychological technologies