凯伦·霍尼(Karen Horney)1885年出生于德国汉堡。父亲是一位船长,母亲是父亲的第二任妻子。因为父亲的观点是男人至上,她从小就面临了不公正的对待,她的哥哥本特受到与她完全不同的待遇,给了她很大的压力。对此,凯伦的反应是发誓要在小学里保持班里第一。她说“假如我不能很漂亮,那么我要非常聪明”。她的母亲于1904年和她的父亲离婚,带着她和本特独自生 Karen Horney was born in Hamburg in Germany in 1885. The father is a captain and the mother is the father’s second wife. Because of her father’s point of view is the supremacy of men, she faced an unfair treatment from an early age, her brother Bent treated with her completely different, gave her a lot of pressure. In response, Karen’s response is vowed to maintain the first class in primary school. She said “If I can not be beautiful, then I want to be very smart ”. Her mother divorced her father in 1904 and took her and Bent alone