y (Clemmens, 1984; & Schultz & Schultz, 1992).
Horney postulated two core systems, the real self and the real self-dynamism or integrating system. Horney spoke in terms of the individual's creative growth capacities and the environmental factors that foster or block the growth. In a good environment, systems interact intrapsychically and interpersonally in a flexible and spontaneous way. In an impoverished, destructive environment they become compulsive, rigid, and static (Wolman, 1979).
Horney believed that motivating forces are the helpless infant feelings of seeking security, safety, and freedom from fear. She saw developmental stages as having to do with the way that a child is treated by patents rather than psychosexual stages. If a child's behavioral strategies become a fixed part of the personality, it is called a neurotic need, a defense from anxiety; she named ten and grouped them into three categories: the compliant type, the detached type, and the aggressive type. She also talked of the concept of the idealized self
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