GRGR (20) Special Topic: Is It OK to Be a Manichean?

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Paul Mackin wrote:
>
> >
> > "But when is the patient able to take his development into
> > his own hands? This question is identical with the question
> > as  to the ultimate goal of psychoanalytical therapy. In my
> > judgment, freeing the patient from anxiety is only a means
> > to an end. The end is to help him to regain his spontaneity,
> > to find his measurements of value in himself, to give the
> > courage to be himself." Karen Horney



> 
> I remember Miss Horney (by reputation) from back in the fifties. She was
> highly regarded by my Freudian friends. Unlike many (and possibly in
> imitation of The Master) she believed that self treatment could be
> efficacious. Even wrote a book about it. So before putting out that cab
> fare, Terrance . . .    :-)
> 
>                         P.


Yes, the passage I quoted is from her New Ways in
Psychoanalysis, 1939. She is still highly regarded in many
schools and many disciplines.