Chapter 5 : Neurotic need and the trends

• Neurosis is an ability to adapt and a tendency to experience excessive negative or obsessive thoughts and behaviors.
• Horney believed that neurosis resulted from basic anxiety caused by interpersonal relationships.
• THREE TYPES OF NEUROTIC NEEDS

  Need that move people towards others. These neurotic needs cause individual to seek affirmation and acceptance from others.
• THREE TYPES OF NEUROTIC NEEDS

  Needs that moves people away from others. Neurotic needs create hostility and antisocial behavior.
• THREEE TYPES OF NEUROTIC NEEDS

  Needs that move people against other. Neurotic needs result in hostility and a need to control other people.
• THREE TYPES OF PERSONALITIES

  Agressive - assumes that everyone is the enemy and only looks out for themselves.
• THREE TYPES OF PERSONALITIES

  Compliant - Sensitive to the needs of others and spontaneously works to meet other's expectations.
• THREE TYPES OF PERSONALITIES

  Detached - seek to become self-sufficient, creating emotional distance from others to the point of alienation.