ABSTRACT
In the first half of the century, a notable rebel against Freud emerged. Her name was Karen Horney, and she was thoroughly fed up with Freud's and his colleagues' attitudes to women. Karen was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1885. Her father was a sea captain, a real disciplinarian who clashed terribly with the rest of the family, including her mother. Despite her rebellious feelings against conventional love, she married Oskar Horney, a successful lawyer with good prospects. They had three daughters, and Oskar turned out to be as strict with them as Horney's own father had been. Karen Horney is a strong candidate for the most lovable psychotherapist of the century. She had a prodigious appetite for enjoying life. Quinn's wonderful biography includes stories of her eccentricity, tactlessness, and occasional striking ignorance of her own great wisdom when it came to her own life.
