Obituaries

Karen Horney, Dean and one of the founders of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, died in New York on December 4, 1952, at the age of 67. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, on September 16, 1885, the daughter of a Norwegian sea captain and a Dutch mother. She is survived by three daughters, Miss Brigitte Horney of New York, Dr. Marianne von Eckhardt of Bethesda, Md. and Mrs. Renata Crevenna of Mexico.

She received her M.D. degree from the Berlin University in 1913, studied psychiatry at Berlin-Lankwitz from 1914 to 1918 and taught at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute from 1918 to 1932. She participated in many international congresses, among these the historic discussion on lay analysis, chaired by Sigmund Freud.

Dr. Horney came to the U. S. in 1932 at the invitation of Dr. Franz Alexander, and for two years was Associate Director of the Psychoanalytic Institute in Chicago. In 1934 she came to New York where she began the most creative and productive period in her life. Until 1941 she was a member of the teaching staff of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, when she became one of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. She was Dean of the latter until her death. In addition to her active program as teacher and therapist, she was Editor of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Lecturer at the New School for Social Research, Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a frequent contributor to the scientific sessions of that Association. Her original contributions to the literature include five books and more than two dozen articles in leading psychoanalytic journals. Her first publications, while in Germany, were devoted to the emotional problems of women. Her search was relentless and arose from the eager wish to help her patients and to improve therapy. This led her to an examination of the influence of culture and a reexamination