To the Editor:

Here I take the opportunity of giving readers of AJP a brief survey of the availability of Karen Horney's work in translation in Yugoslavia.

The man who has done the most to present Karen Horney to readers of Serbo-Croatian is Dušan Kosović, M.D. Dr. Kosović, with Radomir Šaranović, translated Horney's Neurotic Personality of Our Time, which appeared in 1964, with a second printing in 1970. It includes a foreword by Dr. Kosović, giving a brief biography of Karen Horney, and a short summary of her published work.

In 1965, a translation of New Ways in Psychoanalysis appeared, again by Dr. Kosović, this time in collaboration with Batric Filipovic, M.D. Dr. Kosović again contributed a foreword. Drs. Kosović and Filipovic brought out a translation of Our Inner Conflicts in 1966, to which Dr. Kosović supplied a foreword entitled “The Psychoanalytic Thought of Karen Horney.” In 1976, Neurosis and Human Growth appeared, translated by Radomir Šaranović, and in 1980 Self-Analysis, translated by Dzemal Pandza.

Surveys of Karen Horney's work can also be found in standard textbooks of psychiatry and medical psychology in Yugoslavia.

It is possible to criticize the quality of these translations, but considering the translations available of the works of other great analysts such as Freud, Adler, and Jung, I can state that Horney's ideas are well presented in my country.

Finally, I note that Karen Horney's work plays an important role in the cultural life of Yugoslavia. When borrowing books by Horney from the National and university libraries, I was admonished to return the books as soon as possible, because students of various faculties ask for them. The same holds true for readers using the city's library.

I think that I share, with many others in Yugoslavia, the hope and desire, or better, a strong need, for a uniform edition of the complete or selected works of Karen Horney in my native tongue.