Final Lectures (Paperback)

~ (Author), Douglas H. Ingram (Editor) "We have restricted this course to senior psychoanalysts-in-training at our Institute..." (more)
Key Phrases: arbitrary rightness, obstructive forces, The Paucity of Inner Experiences

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Product Description

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. .

About the Author

Karen Horney (1885?) was also the author of The Neurotic Personality of Our Time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (May 17, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393307557
• ISBN-13: 978-0393307559
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #799,711 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 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

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

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

By A Customer

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.