Volume 34, Number 17 · November 5, 1987
The Woman Who Broke Away
By Phyllis Grosskurth
A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney
by Susan Quinn
Summit, 479 pp., $22.95
Final Lectures
by Karen Horney, edited by Douglas H. Ingram MD.
Norton, 128 pp., $14.95
Karen Horney arrived in the United States in 1932, among the first European psychoanalytic émigrés. A leading member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society (and one of its few gentiles), she had already established a reputation as remarkably outspoken in her views on female sexuality. Less than a decade later she was dismissed from the New York Psychoanalytic Society for not adhering to the rigid views of the American group. She has long been seen as one of the founders of the school of psychoanalysis emphasizing environmental rather than biological causes of neurosis. It is only within the last twenty years that contemporary feminists have begun to recognize her as one of their early supporters.
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