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Horney, Karen (1885-1952)
Biographical Note:
Karen Horney was born Karen Danielsen in Hamburg, Germany, in
1885. She went to the medical school of the University of Freiburg, one
of the first German universities to enroll women in medical studies.
She transferred to the University of Göttingen in 1908,
married
Oscar Horney in 1909, and transferred once again to the University of
Berlin, from which she graduated in 1913. She developed a
strong
interest in psychoanalysis early in her professional career,
and was lecturing at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in
Berlin by
1920. She was often classified as Neo-Freudian for her
questioning
of some traditional Freudian views. In 1930 Karen Horney and her three
daughters immigrated to the United States, where they settled in
Brooklyn, NY. She soon became the Associate Director of the
Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and published her very popular
book The Neurotic Personality of Our Time (1937).
Karen
Horney was an author of many books, a Dean of the
American
Institute of Psychoanalysis, a professor at the New York Medical
College, a founder of the Association for the Advancement of
Psychoanalysis and the American Journal of Psychoanalysis. She
continued teaching and practicing psychotherapy until her death in 1952.
Summary: the collection consists of 13 manuscript
boxes of correspondence, papers, reviews, organization records,
personal files, interviews, and photographs. While some of the
documents are originals, much of the Horney material consists of
photocopies. This is a research collection compiled by Susan Quinn for
a biography of Karen Horney entitled A Mind of Her Own: The Life of
Karen Horney (1987). The
collection includes Quinn's annotations, research notes, and
correspondence; documents are arranged by subject and appear in
alphabetical order.
Finding
Aid for
this collection is available
here. The photographs from the collection are listed
here (viewing both files requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Related BPSI Collections
Hendrick,
Ives (1898-1972) (contains K.Horney's correspondence)
Related Sites
Karen
Horney (Wikipedia Entry)
Karen Horney's Biography by Dr. C. George
Boeree
Karen Horney (from Women's Intellectual
Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society)
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