Karen Horney (reference article)

This Wikipedia article on Karen Horney is a tertiary reference source, useful for orienting basic biographical facts about the psychoanalyst's career, her departure from orthodox Freudian theory, and her influential critique of Freud's account of female psychology, but it is not itself a scholarly biography or a primary source for her theoretical contributions. As with any crowd-edited encyclopedia entry, its reliability depends on the citations underlying each section, and depth on any particular period of Horney's career or any specific theoretical dispute varies with how much editorial attention that section has received. For close analysis of Horney's own psychoanalytic theory and its reception within and beyond mainstream psychoanalysis, her own published works and dedicated academic biographies are the stronger source.