Final Lectures [Hardcover]

Karen Horney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 9, 2005

This book presents the lectures Karen Horney gave her class on psychoanalytic technique during the last year of her life.

One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud. Karen Horney was also a great teacher, with a profound influence on the training of psychoanalysts through the American Institute for Psychoanalysis which she co-founded.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Karen Horney (1885-1952) was one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the twentieth century. Her books include Neurosis and Human Growth, The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, New Ways in Psychoanalysis, Our Inner Conflicts, Self-Analysis, Feminine Psychology, Final Lectures, and, as editor, Are You Considering Psychoanalysis? --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co; Revised edition (December 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393312313
• ISBN-13: 978-0393312317
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,929,451 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Book reads like you were in the classroom during the lecture, August 6, 2002

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Robert D. Ison (West Liberty, KY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Final Lectures (Paperback)

Karen Horney's work has established it's significance among the counseling profession and practice. This record of her final lectures, offers great insight into both her work and her personality. However, this book is best appreciatted by the experienced counseling student and not the beginner. To the beginner, the lectures will feel like getting the punchline without having heard the body of the joke.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better Horneys...., March 21, 2003

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This review is from: Final Lectures (Paperback)

Karen Horney's work is essential reading for anyone suffering from an excess of narcissistic pride. This work, though, is a curiosity for those who are familiar with her groundbreaking work, found to much better effect in NEUROSIS AND HUMAN GROWTH among others. Her final lectures give a certain texture to her as a character, and they are poignant as they come at the end of her life. But without already knowing her work, a general reader is likely to give up halfway here, with a shrug.

4.0 out of 5 stars The final words of a great humanist, October 17, 2011

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This review is from: Final Lectures (Paperback)

I studied at the Horney Institute and even taught there about 15 years ago for a time. I love her outlook on the societal causality of mental illness, but in her major writings, she offers little data on molding the concepts into treatment strategy. This is a record of the very final classes given to her students at the Institute. It is masterfully edited by Douglas Ingram, the former director and former President of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. I admire, both in the book and outside, his careful wording, and thoughtful assessments. I must say that I rather like the Introduction by him better than the lectures per se. I think this book is good for people already familiar with Horney's understanding of the neurotic strivings for self-definition. She was, as is written, a Gentle Rebel, and I think the essence of that comes through more in Ingram than in this tiny slice of Horney.