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The 1936 issue of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly in which Horney's paper appeared was a noteworthy one. It contained not only her classic paper on the negative therapeutic reaction, but also parts of Freud's Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, as well as papers by Robert Waelder, Richard Sterba, and John Dollard—all three important psychoanalysts at that time and still remembered today. But Horney's is the best known of these in England.
Horney's paper is known in the United Kingdom because it states a somewhat different view of the negative therapeutic reaction from that of Freud, and also different from that of Riviere, whose paper, “A Contribution to the Analysis of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction,” was published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis in the same year. Neither Horney nor Riviere refers to the paper of the other, and neither refers to a third paper, by Gerö, also published in 1936 in the International Journal; that paper mentions the negative therapeutic reaction in the context of a discussion of depression.
Horney cites Feigenbaum's “Clinical Fragments” (1934), part II of which is called “Laughter Betraying a Negative Therapeutic Reaction.” But her main reference is to Freud's The Ego and the Id1