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Karen Horney was born in Hamburg, Germany, on September 16, 1885. She was a bright student and decided to attend medical school, even though, as a female, she was strongly discouraged. She earned her M.D. in 1913 from the University of Berlin. Horney continued her education by studying psychiatry at Berlin-Lankwitz. She taught at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute from 1918 to 1932.
Horney moved to the United States in 1932 and taught at The Psychoanalytic Institute in Chicago and The New York Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1941 she was one of the founding members of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She wrote a number of books, including Neurosis and Human Growth, New Ways in Psychoanalysis, and Self-Analysis. Horney died on December 4, 1952. |
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