Abstract
Individuals are basically social beings. Parents are the chief agents of socialization for the child and according to Horney, determine whether the child will be capable of moving toward others, against others (the character disorder) or away from others. Loss of emotional supply from the mothering one leads to major problems in socialization. Dependency needs never become resolved. The child retires into a world of fantasy believing that no one cares. This social suppression serves as a protective-avoidance device. Anxiety becomes the basic response and the detachment is based on the need to avoid anxiety. The patient will react to treatment with acute anxiety, will tend to intellectualize the process and will have difficulty forming a relationship with the therapist. In time, the patients become intensely hostile toward the therapist as a defense against closeness and try to provoke counter aggression to justify their hostile attitude and to fulfill the notion that people are untrustworthy and will reje...
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