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Life is a juggling act: Our concepts of “normal” development — myth or reality?

Life is a juggling act: Our concepts of “normal” development — myth or reality? THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 35:103-113 (1975) Twenty-third Annual Karen Homey Lecture LIFE IS A JUGGLING ACT: OUR CONCEPTS OF "NORMAL" DEVELOPMENT - MYTH OR REALITY? Marianne Homey Eckardt I appreciate the honor of your invitation to give this year's Karen Horney Lecture, which I have accepted with pleasure. These lectures are a testimony to her creative personality and her seminal writings, and they are our response to and affirmation of her spirit of passionate commitment to the search for scientific truth by observations, questions, answers, new observations, and revisions of answers. I shall speak to you as her daughter, who hopes to convey to you a flavor of her ever alert, ever inquiring, gifted mind, and I shall speak to you out of my own professional experience, probing questions of importance to me. My mother was a very private person. Only few friends have had the privilege of knowing her well. I myself did not know her well. Among the things she left were some tattered diaries. These were collecting dust until one day my 'younger sister began to leaf through them. Totally fascinated by them, she transcribed them and in the process discovered her mother. I, too, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Life is a juggling act: Our concepts of “normal” development — myth or reality?

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1975 APS Publications, Inc.
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01358182
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Abstract

THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 35:103-113 (1975) Twenty-third Annual Karen Homey Lecture LIFE IS A JUGGLING ACT: OUR CONCEPTS OF "NORMAL" DEVELOPMENT - MYTH OR REALITY? Marianne Homey Eckardt I appreciate the honor of your invitation to give this year's Karen Horney Lecture, which I have accepted with pleasure. These lectures are a testimony to her creative personality and her seminal writings, and they are our response to and affirmation of her spirit of passionate commitment to the search for scientific truth by observations, questions, answers, new observations, and revisions of answers. I shall speak to you as her daughter, who hopes to convey to you a flavor of her ever alert, ever inquiring, gifted mind, and I shall speak to you out of my own professional experience, probing questions of importance to me. My mother was a very private person. Only few friends have had the privilege of knowing her well. I myself did not know her well. Among the things she left were some tattered diaries. These were collecting dust until one day my 'younger sister began to leaf through them. Totally fascinated by them, she transcribed them and in the process discovered her mother. I, too,

Journal

The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Jun 1, 1975

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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