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| created by poor treatment of parents; person feels isolated and helpless in a potentially hositle world, leading to neurosis |
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| defensive identification of neurotics with their idealized images |
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| moral imperatives that drive neurotics to accept nothing less than perfection from themselves |
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| trying to keep the idealized self intact; tendency of eurotics to experience internal processess as if they occurred outside the self and to hold external factors responsible for their diffculties; involves projection |
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| 3 types of competitiveness (origins, associated trait) |
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| hyper-competitiveness, competitions avoidance, personal development competitiveness |
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| indiscriminate need to win at all costs in order to feel superior |
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| comes from hypercompetitive parents tends to treat their children poorly, gives rise to neurosis |
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| Hypercompetitiveness traits |
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| hostile, dogmatic, arrogant, aggressive, derisive toward others, grandeurs of self importance |
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| check competitive strivings because of fear of losing the affection and approval of others; engage in self-handicapping & feeling embarrassed by competitive defeat |
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| Competition Avoidance origins |
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| growing up in the shadows of a parent who is adored by the family, that person doesn’t have affection to give to child |
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| Competition Avoidance traits |
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| Personal Development Competitiveness |
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| focus is not on the outcome (i.e. winning) but on the employment/mastery of the task; more concerned with self-discovery, self-improvement, task mastery than comparision with others |
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| Personal Development Competitiveness origins |
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| idela family environment, respect, warmth |
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| Personal Development Competitiveness traits |
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| Etiology of neurosis, basic conflict in neurosis |
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| attitudes and behaviors of hypercompetitive parents; poor treatment by parents creates basic anxiety; person feels isolated and hopeless in a potentially hostile world -> neurosis |
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| Why develop neurotic strategies |
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| **3 neurotic trends, 10 neurotic strategies & which trend they align with |
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| 3 neurotic trends = compliant type, aggressive type, detached type |
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| moving toward people, seek approval/affection other others by conforming, dependent |
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| moving against people, see others as hostile (only the fittest survive), antisocial, narcissistic |
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| Moving away from people, detached, secretive, isolated, avoidant, self-defeating |
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| Humanistic view of development |
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| Each person is special and has a unique set of potentials that will flourish under wise parental guidance, real self |
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| unique set of potentials for constructive growth within each person, who you really are |
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| Alienation and the idealized self |
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| when neurotics compare the actual self against the idealized self, the actual self inevitably falls short - always disappoints, continuation of neurotic eye |
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| Horney’s view of therapy relationship |
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| impossible for clinician not to judge the client in some way, need more honesty with patients, active listening and directive in offering suggestions |
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| Goals of therapy according to Horney |
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| for neurotics to realize potention (need to let go of illusions about self and goals), need intellectual and emotional self-knowledge to promote change, need motivation for change |
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