Karen Horney

Karen Horney was an American psychiatrist born in Hamburg, Germany to Clotilde and Berndt Danielson on September 16, 1885. Her early adulthood brought her several years of stress and depression. In 1904, her mother divorced her father and Karen did not cope well with that. She would then later go on to get married her self in 1909 to a man by the name of Oscar Horney. They would go on to have three children. It was the years to come that Karen would have the most trouble with.
After Karen’s mom died in 1911, he marriage then failed and forced her to move to Brooklyn, New York. That’s when she found out that her brother died in 1930. The strain of these events were very hard on her, so she decided to enter psychoanalysis, but this caused a deep depression within her that also, made her want to commit suicide.
While in Brooklyn after all Karen’s hardships, she became secretary of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. From there, she we...