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Marmor, J. (1977). The Psychoanalyst as a Person. Am. J. Psychoanal., 37:275-284.

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(1977). American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 37:275-284

Twenty-Fifth Annual Karen Horney Lecture

The Psychoanalyst as a Person

Judd Marmor, M.D. Author Information

Being asked to be the 25th Annual Karen Horney Lecturer has a special significance for me because Dr. Horney exercised a decisive influence upon my development during a critical period in my psychoanalytic career. Her classic book The Neurotic Personality of Our Time came out in 1937,3 about nine months after I had begun my psychoanalytic training. It had an electric effect upon me! Her descriptions of neurotic patterns had an intensity and clarity of meaning that the classical libido-oriented views that I was being taught at the time totally failed to convey.

Thus it was not accidental that I sought Karen Horney out as my first psychoanalytic supervisor as soon as the opportunity arose. I still see her clearly in my mind's eye—outwardly calm, yet with a burning inner intensity and concentration that rendered her deeply perceptive and sensitive to the smallest nuance in the clinical material I was presenting to her. My work with her had an important impact on my own method of p

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