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Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
Karen Horney was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1885 and studied at the University of Berlin, receiving her medical degree in 1913. From 1914 to 1918 she studied psychiatry at Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, and from 1918 to 1932 taught at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. She participated in many international congresses, among them the historic discussion of lay analysis, cha
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Paperback, 400 pages
Published
May 18th 1991
by W. W. Norton Company
(first published 1950)
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Outstanding. But I do have to place some caveats: This is not a book for the light reader browsing through the "self help" section. It's an intricately articulate and researched analysis of human being's dysfunctional mechanisms. You do not need to have a background in psychology... but you do have to have intellectual endurance.
Keep in mind that this book was written 60 years ago. The language is a bit outdated. It was written by a woman who was trying to be taken seriously in a very male domi ...more
Keep in mind that this book was written 60 years ago. The language is a bit outdated. It was written by a woman who was trying to be taken seriously in a very male domi ...more
ميتونم بگم هولناكترين كتابي بوده كه تا به حال خوندهام.
شما صاف صاف راه ميريد، گهگداري با خودتون يا ديگران درگير ميشيد و اصطكاك پيدا ميكنيد، آرزوها و تمايلات و اخلاقيات خاص خودتون رو داريد، و هر از چند گاهي انسانهايي يا رفتارهايي از آدميان اطراف خودتون ميبينيد كه عميقاً براشون احساس تاسف ميكنيد. تا اينجا همه چيز خوبه. اما به طور اتفاقي يا نيمه اتفاقي كتابي رو دست ميگيريد كه با خوندنش متوجه ميشيد مشكل داريد! عميقاً هم مشكل داريد! متوجه ميشويد رفتارها، كنشها، تمايلات، تخيلات و بسياري از درونيترين در ...more
شما صاف صاف راه ميريد، گهگداري با خودتون يا ديگران درگير ميشيد و اصطكاك پيدا ميكنيد، آرزوها و تمايلات و اخلاقيات خاص خودتون رو داريد، و هر از چند گاهي انسانهايي يا رفتارهايي از آدميان اطراف خودتون ميبينيد كه عميقاً براشون احساس تاسف ميكنيد. تا اينجا همه چيز خوبه. اما به طور اتفاقي يا نيمه اتفاقي كتابي رو دست ميگيريد كه با خوندنش متوجه ميشيد مشكل داريد! عميقاً هم مشكل داريد! متوجه ميشويد رفتارها، كنشها، تمايلات، تخيلات و بسياري از درونيترين در ...more
این اولین کتابی بود که در زمینهی روانکاوی مطالعه کردم و تجربهی بسیار جالبی هم بود.
نویسنده اختلالات نوروتیک رو بر اساس تجربیات کودکی به سه دستهی مهرطلبی، برتری طلبی و عزلتطلبی تقسیم میکنه و شرح حال هر سه دسته رو میگه. به عنوان کسی که زیاد طرفدار سایکوآنالیز و روانشناسی نیست و بیشتر به روش علمی متمایله، از خوندن این کتاب راضی بودم.
با خوندن این کتاب، جز اینکه خیلی از تضادهای درونی خودم که مدتها باهاشون دست و پنجه نرم میکردم برام آشکار شد، تصویر خیلی از این حالات نوروتیک رو توی اطرافیانم مشاهده کردم ...more
نویسنده اختلالات نوروتیک رو بر اساس تجربیات کودکی به سه دستهی مهرطلبی، برتری طلبی و عزلتطلبی تقسیم میکنه و شرح حال هر سه دسته رو میگه. به عنوان کسی که زیاد طرفدار سایکوآنالیز و روانشناسی نیست و بیشتر به روش علمی متمایله، از خوندن این کتاب راضی بودم.
با خوندن این کتاب، جز اینکه خیلی از تضادهای درونی خودم که مدتها باهاشون دست و پنجه نرم میکردم برام آشکار شد، تصویر خیلی از این حالات نوروتیک رو توی اطرافیانم مشاهده کردم ...more
زمانی که روزگار مثل همیشه بر وفق مراد نبود و مثل فیلم های تکراری و حوصله سربر صدا و سیما برای خودمم خسته کننده و طی دوره های مختلف پر تکرار شده بود، یکباره تمام زورم به کتاب هایی که چند سال هست میخونم رسید و با خودم گفتم این همه ادعا و این همه تلاش برای کتاب خوندن چیه؟
درسته همه اونها دنیای بزرگتری برای من ساختن ولی چرا هیچ کاری برای الان من از دستشون بر نمیاد ؟ و تصمیم گرفتم که تا چند وقت رمان و داستانی هم نخونم که بعدها متوجه شدم که شاید من هر کتابی رو در زمان مناسب و جای مناسبی نخوانده ام و ال ...more
درسته همه اونها دنیای بزرگتری برای من ساختن ولی چرا هیچ کاری برای الان من از دستشون بر نمیاد ؟ و تصمیم گرفتم که تا چند وقت رمان و داستانی هم نخونم که بعدها متوجه شدم که شاید من هر کتابی رو در زمان مناسب و جای مناسبی نخوانده ام و ال ...more
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خوندن این کتاب در ظاهر خیلی آسونه. اصلا، روانشناسی به زبان ساده است! خیلی پیچیده اش نمی کنه، خیلی فنی توضیح نمی ده، خیلی به عمق نمی ره اما سرنخی به دست آدم می ده که به سه تا تیپ متفاوت واکنش ناموثر به اضطراب های کودکی و درونی شده در بزرگسالی منجر می شه. سختی خوندن این کتاب اینجاست که باید اعتراف کنی در بازه ی زمانی ای از زندگیت یا حتی این لحظه ی زندگیت داری از این روش های ناموثر استفاده می کنی و حتی متوجه بشی که نیاتت، به غیر از اونی هست که خودت تمام عمر باور داشتی. گرچه آدم ها موجودات اون چنان
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I usually am suspicious of female authors, especially when it comes to psychology. It may be sexist to say so, but I have always find the gap between the different modes of thinking to be unbridgeable. This book was a pleasant surprise.
The author's main contention is that neurosis is a peculiarly human affliction and that it takes the form of what we would call the "personality." The author argues that this personality is, in reality, a pseudo-self that spends its valuable energies on pseudo-go ...more
The author's main contention is that neurosis is a peculiarly human affliction and that it takes the form of what we would call the "personality." The author argues that this personality is, in reality, a pseudo-self that spends its valuable energies on pseudo-go ...more
Ahhh! This book was AMAZING! Everybody should read it right now! It will terrify you and amaze you and fill you with hope. It is like she looks in your head, writes down what is in there - and does not give up on you.
براي بار دوم خوندنش لطف ديگه اي داره، انگار تازه دارم ميفهمم چطوري ميتونم ازش استفاده كنم!
Это лучшая книга по психологии для меня на данный момент. Она написана на понятном мне языке, и в ней нет ничего лишнего. Я прочла именно то, что мне было нужно. Теперь у меня сложилась полная картина в восприятии отдельных личностей.
Некоторое сходство с собой я нашла среди тех, кто "ушел в отставку". Но, к счастью, до "жизни в луже" в стиле Обломова мне еще далеко... А вот 100% обо мне: “Он хочет быть свободен и, следовательно, не потерпит, чтобы на него давили. Он хочет делать, что ему нравит ...more
Некоторое сходство с собой я нашла среди тех, кто "ушел в отставку". Но, к счастью, до "жизни в луже" в стиле Обломова мне еще далеко... А вот 100% обо мне: “Он хочет быть свободен и, следовательно, не потерпит, чтобы на него давили. Он хочет делать, что ему нравит ...more
Heavy on the scholarship, but holy crap...if you have any kind of neurosis/neuroses, you'll be reading your life's story within Karen Horney's analysis of neuroses, in general. Her books made me understand and that's all you really need to do, in the end. She makes sense of our inner conflicts, great and small. This won't solve the problem, but it will shine a light on it, and that has made all the difference.
Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization, Karen Horney
عنوان: عصبیت و رشد آدمی؛ مترجم: محمدجعفر مصفا؛
عنوان: عصبیت و رشد آدمی؛ مترجم: محمدجعفر مصفا؛
*Audiobook review*
You know when you read (listen :P) a book and wonder if the author has been spying on you for your entire life? I think this one will do that to many people.
The narrator, Heather Henderson, was surprisingly absorbing with this type of text. If only my school teachers presented like her in all those dry subjects, I would have way better grades.
This was a very good introduction to neurotic behaviors and a very interesting story of my life. But who is to say the neurotic is doing ...more
You know when you read (listen :P) a book and wonder if the author has been spying on you for your entire life? I think this one will do that to many people.
The narrator, Heather Henderson, was surprisingly absorbing with this type of text. If only my school teachers presented like her in all those dry subjects, I would have way better grades.
This was a very good introduction to neurotic behaviors and a very interesting story of my life. But who is to say the neurotic is doing ...more
More like a three. When I look at some of the books I've rated, I sometimes find myself wondering whether I really did rate it at such level. It's a marvel how our mind changes its views overtime.
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A bit overdone, overreaching, and overextended. For example, her idea of 'pride' is so broad that it also is supposed to account as a contributing factor in the homosexual's 'inhibition' towards women and 'preference for one's own sex'. There is no shortage of kooky psychoanalytic babble in th ...more
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A bit overdone, overreaching, and overextended. For example, her idea of 'pride' is so broad that it also is supposed to account as a contributing factor in the homosexual's 'inhibition' towards women and 'preference for one's own sex'. There is no shortage of kooky psychoanalytic babble in th ...more
مهر سال پیش بود که گفتم به دبستانم برم. وقتی مدیرم را دیدم فکر کردم که زمان این همه وقت ایستاده بود، انگار نه انگار عوض شده بود. بعد از کلی حرف زدن یک سری کتاب به من معرفی کردن. اولین چیزی که نوشتن " عصبیت و رشد " ی آدمی" به قول خودشون این کتابی هست که " آدم رو به اون چیزی که هست بر می گرداند".
کتاب در واقع یک کتاب روانشناسی هست که دلیل و اساس "بیگانه شدن" از خود آدم رو توجیه می کد. و جالب هست که تنها روش های تشخیص این ماجرا را می گوید و در قسمت های مختلف کتاب تنها اشارتی به راه حل های رفع می کن ...more
کتاب در واقع یک کتاب روانشناسی هست که دلیل و اساس "بیگانه شدن" از خود آدم رو توجیه می کد. و جالب هست که تنها روش های تشخیص این ماجرا را می گوید و در قسمت های مختلف کتاب تنها اشارتی به راه حل های رفع می کن ...more
Wow. This 1950 book is an epic work of Neo-Freudian Psychoanalysis. It is far less scientifically grounded than most of what I've read. It is based on Dr. Horney's vast psychoanalytic case files, but lacks the experimental rigor that I have come to expect from more modern psychological treatises. Instead, there are astoundingly large numbers of 'assertions.' "The neurotic does this, wants that, feels this." Many of these assertions rang true, but could have easily been explained via other means.
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Just admit it. We are all neurotics to a certain degree. This is far more useful than any self help book. What a shame it is so little visible. Since it was written in 50s last century, many people could have benefited from reading it ... if it only wasnt pushed off the shelves by "get-it-all-easily-and-now" crap. If you think of a real change, do not get carried away by funky manipulations of self help gurus, but go deep and far to yourself. Karen Horney will be a kind, understanding guide to y
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*همونطور که در مقدمه کتاب نوشته شده *ظلم بر خویش کند هر که نخواند مارا
کتاب چهارده فصله درباره رفتارهای غیرعادی , ریشه ترسها و استرس هایی که خود فرد هم نمیدونه منشاشون کجاست توضیحات داده.
و البته که مفهوم نرمال و غیر نرمال و سالم و عصبی در اجتماعات و زمانهای مختلف فرق میکنه
رفتاری که اینجا نرمال حساب میشه جای دیگه نرمال نیست
بنظرم هیچ کس اندازه خود فرد نمیتونه به خودش کمک کنه , و چه راهی بهتر از شناختن خود که کار خیلی سختی هم هست
فصل نه و مهرطلبی قسمت جالبیه , رفتارهای مهرطلبانه که در ایران زیاد دی ...more
کتاب چهارده فصله درباره رفتارهای غیرعادی , ریشه ترسها و استرس هایی که خود فرد هم نمیدونه منشاشون کجاست توضیحات داده.
و البته که مفهوم نرمال و غیر نرمال و سالم و عصبی در اجتماعات و زمانهای مختلف فرق میکنه
رفتاری که اینجا نرمال حساب میشه جای دیگه نرمال نیست
بنظرم هیچ کس اندازه خود فرد نمیتونه به خودش کمک کنه , و چه راهی بهتر از شناختن خود که کار خیلی سختی هم هست
فصل نه و مهرطلبی قسمت جالبیه , رفتارهای مهرطلبانه که در ایران زیاد دی ...more
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The whole world is neurotic.
جالب بود ، یه جور کنکاش روانی یک فرد
هر کدام از ما شاید گوشه ای از موضوع همین مبحث باشیم.
هر کدام از ما شاید گوشه ای از موضوع همین مبحث باشیم.
This is a brilliant book! Horney is classified with the neo-Freudians like Erich Fromm. Her analysis of personality types with respect to aggression in this book is worth the price.
Excellent resource. Dated, yet as apropos today as it was sixty years ago.
Reading recommended chapters "The Tyranny of the Should" and "Neurotic Pride" for Georgetown University "Dynamics of the Spiritual Exercise".
"Self-hate is Pride's inseparable companion and that he cannot have one without the other"
Nevrozlar ve İnsan Gelişimi, Horney’ın son ve hacim olarak en geniş kitabıdır. Horneyan literatüre en değerli katkısı olan bu kitap, Düşlerin Yorumu’ndan sonra belki de en geniş ve yapısal nevroz kuramı sunsa da psikanalitik literatürde hak ettiği ilgiyi şu ana kadar görmemiştir. Bunun nedeni, Hornayan literatür hakkında yazılan yazıların, yanlış bir odak kayması ile, kültür ve kadın psikolojisi üzerine odaklanmış olması olabilir.
Kitabın, Horneyan literatürdeki önemi, Ruhsal Çatışmalarımız ad ...more
Kitabın, Horneyan literatürdeki önemi, Ruhsal Çatışmalarımız ad ...more
This was a really tough book to listen to, with a hard to follow logic and difficult wording at times, but it was a huge eye opener.
The book speaks about how neurosis may affect ones life and saps away his/her energy to build a never to be reached super ego. I enjoyed parts of this book while others were too convoluted for me to follow while driving. Nevertheless, it pointed specific properties a neurotic person has and how it can limit their potential and affect his relationship with others.
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The book speaks about how neurosis may affect ones life and saps away his/her energy to build a never to be reached super ego. I enjoyed parts of this book while others were too convoluted for me to follow while driving. Nevertheless, it pointed specific properties a neurotic person has and how it can limit their potential and affect his relationship with others.
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Great read. Little slow in the middle but ties together nicely at the end.
read this one for a course at the university of florida. bernie paris was the instructor/professor. don't recall the course title, psychological something or other & literature....after thinking on it some, third force psychology and....whoops...lost it...
horney's work, in particular this one (i read one other by her) is applicable to literary criticism, character study, and there's a world of literature out there where one could make an argument about so and so. ibsen, barth, shakespeare... ...more
horney's work, in particular this one (i read one other by her) is applicable to literary criticism, character study, and there's a world of literature out there where one could make an argument about so and so. ibsen, barth, shakespeare... ...more
This is a dense book, prepare yourself. Although, not nearly as time consuming and futile as analytic psychotherapy must have been before Karen Horney. Hundreds of pages and not one mention of Daddy's penis -- how refreshing.
Jokes aside, this is an interesting albeit weighty book. Expect a lot of raised eyebrows if you're not familiar with psychoanalytic jargon. Given the paradigm its also pretty light on ACTUAL empirical scientific evidence, but much of what is said does make a wonderful sort o ...more
Jokes aside, this is an interesting albeit weighty book. Expect a lot of raised eyebrows if you're not familiar with psychoanalytic jargon. Given the paradigm its also pretty light on ACTUAL empirical scientific evidence, but much of what is said does make a wonderful sort o ...more
Somebody recommended me to read this book (in reference to Alice Miller's books, which i really liked) and i'm glad i decided to pick it up. Even though it's deemed to be a heavy-reading material--and i did feel lost at some parts--It was not to the point that got me frustrated. In fact, I always looked forward to spare the time to continue reading this until the last page. That's just how good of a job the author did on writing this piece of analytic work.
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Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, particularly his theory of sexuality, as well as the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis and its genetic psychology. As such, she is often classified as Neo-Freudian.
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