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    Horney identified 10 categories of neurotic needs that characterize how neurotics attempt to deal with basic anxiety. The 10 categories overlap and an individual may exhibit multiple needs. Each need relates to other people. The needs include a desire for affection and approval from others, having a powerful partner, restricting one's life within narrow borders, seeking power, exploiting others, social recognition, personal admiration, ambition and achievement, independence, and perfectionism.

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    Horney identified 10 categories of neurotic needs that characterize how neurotics attempt to deal with basic anxiety. The 10 categories overlap and an individual may exhibit multiple needs. Each need relates to other people. The needs include a desire for affection and approval from others, having a powerful partner, restricting one's life within narrow borders, seeking power, exploiting others, social recognition, personal admiration, ambition and achievement, independence, and perfectionism.

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    Horney identified 10 categories of neurotic needs that characterize how neurotics attempt to deal with basic anxiety. The 10 categories overlap and an individual may exhibit multiple needs. Each need relates to other people. The needs include a desire for affection and approval from others, having a powerful partner, restricting one's life within narrow borders, seeking power, exploiting others, social recognition, personal admiration, ambition and achievement, independence, and perfectionism.

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    Karen Horney’s Neurotic Needs

    Horney tentatively identified 10 categories of neurotic needs that characterize neurotics in their attempts
    to combat basic anxiety. They describe the basic defensive strategies. The 10 categories of neurotic needs
    overlapped one another, and a single person might employ more than one. Each of the following neurotic
    needs relates in some way or another to other people.

    1. The neurotic need for affection and approval. In their quest for affection and approval, neurotics
    attempt indiscriminately to please others. They try to live up to the expectations of others, tend to dread
    self-assertion, and are quite uncomfortable with the hostility of others as well as the hostile feelings
    within themselves.

    2. The neurotic need for a powerful partner. Lacking self-confidence, neurotics try to attach themselves
    to a powerful partner. This need includes an overvaluation of love and a dread of being alone or deserted.
    Horney’s own life story reveals a strong need to relate to a great man, and she had a series of such
    relationships during her adult life.

    3. The neurotic need to restrict one’s life within narrow borders. Neurotics frequently strive to remain
    inconspicuous, to take second place, and to be content with very little. They downgrade their own abilities
    and dread making demands on others.

    4. The neurotic need for power. Power and affection are perhaps the two greatest neurotic needs. The
    need for power is usually combined with the needs for prestige and possession and manifests itself as the
    need to control others and to avoid feelings of weakness or stupidity.

    5. The neurotic need to exploit others. Neurotics frequently evaluate others on the basis of how they can
    be used or exploited, but at the same time, they fear being exploited by others.

    6. The neurotic need for social recognition or prestige. Some people combat basic anxiety by trying to be
    first, to be important, or to attract attention to themselves.

    7. The neurotic need for personal admiration. Neurotics have a need to be admired for what they are
    rather than for what they possess. Their inflated self-esteem must be continually fed by the admiration
    and approval of others.

    8. The neurotic need for ambition and personal achievement. Neurotics often have a strong drive to be the
    best—the best salesperson, the best bowler, the best lover. They must defeat other people in order to
    confirm their superiority.

    9. The neurotic need for self-sufficiency and independence. Many neurotics have a strong need to move
    away from people, thereby proving that they can get along without others. The playboy who cannot be
    tied down by any woman exemplifies this neurotic need.

    10. The neurotic need for perfection and unassailability. By striving relentlessly for perfection, neurotics
    receive “proof” of their self-esteem and personal superiority. They dread making mistakes and having
    personal.

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