Karen Horney: Psychoanalytic Social Theory

• Merciless Self-Accusation - "if only people knew me, they would realize that I'm pretending to be knowledgeable, competent, and sincere. I'm really a fraud, but no one knows but me"
• Self-Contempt - belittling, disparaging, doubting, discrediting, and ridiculing oneself
• Self-Contempt - "you conceited idiot! what makes you think you can get a date with the best-looking woman in town?
• Self-Frustration - postponing or forgoing pleasurable activities in order to achieve reasonable goals
• Self-Frustration - I must not wear nice clothes because many people around the world are in rags.
• Self-Torment/Self-Torture - people's main intention is to inflict harm or suffering on themselves
• Self-Destructive actions and impulses - physical or psychological, conscious or unconscious, acute or chronic, carried out only in the imagination.