Karen Horney was born in Hamburg, Germany to Captain and Mrs. Berndt
             Wackels Danielson on September 16, 1885. Captain Danielson was a religious man with
             an authoritarian parenting style, he was referred to as "the Bible thrower". Although her
             father brought her gifts from around the world and let her accompany him on three sea
             excursions, Karen felt that he favored her older brother Berndt. The lack of a connection
             with her father made Karen become extremely close with her mother, Clotilde aka Sonni.
             Clotilde was Captain Danielson's second wife, 19 years seperated the cosmopolitan wife
             When Karen was nine she changed her approach to life and became more bold and
             ambitious. At the same time, Karen's crush on her beloved teenage brother led him to
             distance himself from her uncomfortable attentions. Berndt's rejection made Karen
             depressed, the first of many bouts of depression throughout her life. In 1904 Clotilde
             divorced Karen's father and left both Berndt and Karen in his care.
             In 1906, Karen Horney decided to attend medical school against her parents
             wishes. Contrary to societal norms, Horney attended the universities of Freiburg and
             Berlin. While in school Karen met Oscar Horney, a law student, whom she married in
             1909. The first of the couple's three daughters, Bridgette was born in 1910. The following
             year Clotilde died and Karen entered psychoanalysis to help her cope with the dramatic
             changes she had been through. In psychoanalysis Karen learned that Oscar was like her
             dad, an authoritarian who was harsh with the children. Yet Karen considered his methods
             acceptable and did not intervene, instead she believed that the atmosphere encouraged
             Horney began to follow Freudian analysis with Karl Abraham in 1915. By 1919,
             she was taking patients which led to a twelve year position at Berlin Psychoanalytic Clinic
             and Institute. Later sh...