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The Conflict Within Us Author: Karen Horney Publisher: Democracy and Construction Press
The Conflict Within Us Author: Karen Horney Publisher: Democracy and Construction Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
★ Su Qin strongly recommends this psychological self-help book written by an internationally renowned leader in psychoanalysis for every ordinary person. It deeply reveals the contradictory and complex psychological truths, allowing you to identify yourself and feel a chill down your spine, and then rebuild your self-confidence in life, so that you can live a complete, mature, and inner-peaceful self!
★ An extremely popular, influential and easy-to-understand psychological self-help book by internationally renowned psychologist Karen Horney.
★ How to deal with the loneliness, loss, madness and love in our hearts? Understand the psychology of inner conflicts and rebuild self-confidence in life.
Horney's research and classification of modern people's inner conflicts in this book covers all personality types. No matter what class, age or occupation, people can find the answers they want in the book. What's more important is that she not only helps you analyze problems from a psychological perspective and allows you to see yourself clearly, but also proposes effective methods from the perspective of psychotherapy.
Do you really like someone, or do you just think you like him because you think you should like him?
When you see a loved one pass away, do you feel genuine sadness, or is it just a habitual way of expressing your condolences?
Is there a certain kind of person you really want to be, or is it just because that kind of person is respected and well-paid?
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This book points out that, due to the deep influence of our living environment, we always run counter to the person we want to be, thus generating these inner conflicts that dominate our lives. In order to resolve these conflicts, we not only fabricate various "idealized images" to deceive ourselves and others, and put the responsibility on others through "externalization", but also develop a series of different defense strategies based on different personality tendencies: the submissive type chooses to get close to others, the confrontational type chooses to resist others, and the alienated type chooses to alienate others. However, these strategies are more like sophisticated compensation and escape. Not only do they fail to eliminate conflicts, but they make us feel deeply fearful, anxious and desperate, unable to sincerely invest in any relationship or work, and feel that everything has been set and will never get better, and we are sinking deeper and deeper on the bad road.
As a major representative of neo-Freudianism, Karen Horney believes that people have the desire to grow and will always be willing to become a better person. Therefore, she believes that as long as the conditions that cause conflicts are changed, they can be truly resolved. This book points out the problems we encounter when we are troubled by inner conflicts, and proposes practical methods to resolve conflicts, so that we can learn to deal with inner loneliness, madness, loss and love, gain inner integrity, maturity and peace, rebuild self-confidence in life, and live more bravely and healthily.
About the Author · · · · · ·
One of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the 20th century and a major representative of neo-Freudianism. Horney was one of the first advocates of social psychology, advocating that cultural determinism replace Freud's biological determinism. Karen Horney wrote many books throughout her life, and "Our Inner Conflicts" and "The Neurotic Personality of Our Time" are her masterpieces in her mature period. In this book, Horney shows her amazing insight into people's psychological activities and contradictions, making it easy for readers to "match themselves with the people around them".
