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1. Horney believed that _______________________, not anatomy, was responsible for psychic differences between men and women.
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2. Horney’s writings are concerned mostly with _________________ individuals.
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3. By training, Horney was a __________________ at a time when few women in Germany were trained in this profession.
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4. Horney believed that modern culture overvalues ___________________ and undervalues cooperation.
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5. Horney questioned Freud’s ____________________ of his observations rather than the observations themselves.
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6 Horney believed that basic hostility and ____________________ underlie all neurotic drives.
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7. People protect themselves against _______________________ through affection, submission, power, or withdrawal.
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8. Horney’s three neurotic ________________ include moving toward, against, and away from people.
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9. Neurotic behavior is more _____________________ than normal behavior, and this is a primary distinction between normals and neurotics.
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10. Neurotic trends are used to solve basic ___________________, which originates in childhood when children are driven toward, against, and away from people.
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11. ____________________ is the outstanding characteristic of people who adopt the strategy of moving toward other people.
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12. _____________________ people protect themselves against the hostility of others by moving against people.
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13. Neurotics try to solve the basic conflict of __________________ by moving away from people in a detached manner.
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14. The idealized ______________________ is an attempt to solve conflicts by portraying a godlike picture of oneself.
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15. Horney’s need for _________________ refers to the drive to make the whole personality into the idealized self.
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16. Self-contempt and self-torment are two modes of ___________________