You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
The Therapeutic Process is at once a scholarly achievement, a fascinating demonstration of Karen Horney's intellectual and clinical development, and a guide to Horney's ideas about what clinical psychoanalysis can be for both analysand and analyst. Professor Paris is no stranger to readers of this Journal, and the esteem and admiration with which so many of us view him will only be enhanced by reading this homage. While he expresses his reservations about venturing into territory in which he is not expert, that is, clinical psychoanalysis, any concerns are put to rest by Professor Paris's letting the material speak for itself. (That is, letting Horney speak for herself.) As her biographer and one who uses Horneyan theory in literary criticism, Professor Paris's mastery of the theory and the context of its development in the psychoanalytic culture and in the wider culture makes his introductory essays and brief prefaces to each paper, as well as his outlining of Horney's “mature theory,” part of a seamless grounding of this collection of Horney's papers and lectures dealing with clinical work.
Beginning with “The Technique of Psychoanalytic Therapy,” first published in German in 1917 and ending with her eleventh lecture on technique “Mobilizing Constructive Forces” given to candidates at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1951, we are treated to twelve papers, six abstracts and symposia and eleven lectures spanning those thirty-four years. Since the second paper in this volume was first published in 1933, it is more accurate to say that the book concentrates on the extraordinary last eighteen years of Horney's professional life.
As one familiar with Horney's work, the special treat in reading The Therapeutic Process was in reading the technical papers from 1933 to 1936, some of them unavailable or unpublished until now. As Professor Paris reminds us, this was the period just after her move to the U.S., a move that helped to foster a sustained period of increa