Final Lectures

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Summary: Better Horneys....
Review: Karen Horney's work has established it's significance among the counseling profession and practice. This record of her final lectures, offers great insight into both her work and her personality. However, this book is best appreciatted by the experienced counseling student and not the beginner. To the beginner, the lectures will feel like getting the punchline without having heard the body of the joke.

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Summary: Book reads like you were in the classroom during the lecture
Review: Karen Horney's work has established it's significance among the counseling profession and practice. This record of her final lectures, offers great insight into both her work and her personality. However, this book is best appreciatted by the experienced counseling student and not the beginner. To the beginner, the lectures will feel like getting the punchline without having heard the body of the joke.

Rating:
Summary: Better Horneys....
Review: Karen Horney's work is essential reading for anyone suffering from an excess of narcissistic pride. This work, though, is a curiosity for those who are familiar with her groundbreaking work, found to much better effect in NEUROSIS AND HUMAN GROWTH among others. Her final lectures give a certain texture to her as a character, and they are poignant as they come at the end of her life. But without already knowing her work, a general reader is likely to give up halfway here, with a shrug.