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Challenging the view that people are instinct-driven, her belief in an individual's capacity to grow and change is evident when she wrote, "Psychoanalysis can free a human being who has been tied hands and feet. It cannot give him new arms or legs. Psychoanalysis, however, has shown us that much that we have regarded as constitutional merely represents a blockage of growth, a blockage which can be lifted."
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The Neurotic Personality of Our Time (1937)
New Ways In Psychoanalysis (1939)
Our Inner Conflicts (1945)
Self-Analysis (1942)
Neurosis and Human Growth (1950)
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http://www.karenhorneycenter.org/karen.htm
http://www.psyking.net/id164.htm
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