Karen Horney MD

Karen Horney (1885–1952) was a German-born American psychoanalyst and neo-Freudian known for her theories on neurotic needs, feminine psychology, and critiques of Freud's concept of penis envy[1][2]. She departed from Freud's instinctual drives by emphasizing environmental and social factors in personality development, authoring major works like The Neurotic Personality of Our Time (1937) and New Ways in Psychoanalysis (1939)[2][5].