Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst, whose key concepts of basic anxiety, neurosis, neurotic needs and trends, and the tyranny of the shoulds, are still relevant and interesting for understanding ourselves (and patients) better today.

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SOURCES
- Ingram, D. H. (2012). Who Was Karen Horney? The Psychiatric times, 29(3), 22-23.
- Penn, L. S., & Neumann, Z. (2020). Neurotic Personality (Horney). In Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (pp. 3216-3219). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
- Smith, W. B. (2007). Karen Horney and Psychotherapy in the 21st Century. Clinical Social Work Journal, 35(1), 57-66.
- http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/Horney.pdf

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:44 Horney vs. Freud
02:06 Neurosis
04:11 Basic anxiety, neurotic trends
07:16 Basic conflict
08:08 Neurotic needs
08:50 Ideal Self, Tyranny of the Should
11:24 Psychotherapy
12:02 Self-Analysis