Karen Horney

Horney, Karen (1885–1952), German-born U.S. psychoanalyst, founder of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis (1941). She stressed the importance of environmental and cultural factors in character development, rejecting many of the basic principles of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, especially his stress on the libido as the root of personality and behavior. Her best known work is Neurosis and Human Growth (1950).