PSYCHOLOGIST

Karen Horney

1885 - 1952

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Karen Horney (; née Danielsen; 16 September 1885 – 4 December 1952) was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. This was particularly true of her theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karen Horney has received more than 1,161,099 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Karen Horney is the 27th most popular psychologist (up from 30th in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from Germany (up from 318th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Psychologist.

Karen Horney is most famous for her work with sex offenders. She wrote the book, "The Rapist's Wife: What She Knew and How She Lives with the Consequences," which tells the story of her marriage to a convicted rapist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Karen Horney ranks 27 out of 235. Before her are Wilhelm Reich, Edward Thorndike, B. F. Skinner, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Gustav Fechner. After her are Alfred Binet, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hermann Rorschach, Howard Gardner, and Gordon Allport.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Karen Horney ranks 11. Before her are Alban Berg, Albert Kesselring, George S. Patton, Umberto Nobile, Ezra Pound, and Hermann Hoth. After her are Julius Streicher, Robert Delaunay, Faisal I of Iraq, Chester W. Nimitz, André Maurois, and Mikhail Frunze. Among people deceased in 1952, Karen Horney ranks 10. Before her are George VI, John Dewey, Chaim Weizmann, Alexandra Kollontai, Wilm Hosenfeld, and Paul Éluard. After her are Sveinn Björnsson, Benedetto Croce, Elena of Montenegro, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Sven Hedin, and Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karen Horney ranks 310 out of 7,253. Before her are Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Sepp Dietrich (1892), Baldur von Schirach (1907), Henry the Lion (1129), Christian III of Denmark (1503), and Hans von Aachen (1552). After her are Carl Bosch (1874), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Theodor Heuss (1884), Julius Streicher (1885), Georgy Lvov (1861), and Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Karen Horney ranks 4. Before her are Erich Fromm (1900), Wilhelm Wundt (1832), and Erik Erikson (1902). After her are Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Hans Eysenck (1916), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), and Karl Bühler (1879).

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