Karen Horney
By: Houston Curtin
Date of Birth
Karen Horney was born on September 16, 1885
Date of Death
She died on December 4th, 1952
Family
Her parents were Clotilde and Berndt Danielson. She met Oscar Horney in medical school and married him in 1909, together they had 3 daughters
School
She studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Gottingen and Berlin, earning her medical degree in 1911
Field of Study
She studied the field of Psychoanalysis
Contribution to Psychology
Karen Horney challenges the male bias in Freud's psychoanalytic theory and proposes a social-cultural approach