Karen Horney - Our inner conflicts (1945)

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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist... The therapy effected by life itself is not, however, within one's control. Neither hardships nor friendships nor religious experience can be arranged to meet the needs of the particular individual. Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may entirely crush another.

Karen Horney
Every person, to the extent that he is neurotic, is like an airplane directed by remote control.

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Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Karen Horney
The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

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Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

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The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

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Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.

Karen Horney