e left Berlin to join the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. During
             the 1920's Horney published papers on the Freudian school of thought, concentrating
             especially on psychosexuality. In 1923, Oscar's business collapsed and he acquired
             meningitis, making him morose and belligerent. The same year brought Horney the
             terrible news that her brother Berndt had died at the age of 40 from a pulmonary infection.
             Once again, a stressful year caused Karen Horney to spiral down into depressions suicidal
             depths. While on a vacation, Karen's thoughts of suicide motivated her to swim out to a
             sea piling for an attempt that was never made.
             Three years later, Horney moved her family out of Oscar's home and they
             eventually wound up in Brooklyn, New York. During the 1930's Brooklyn was the
             intellectual capitol of the world because of an influx of foreign immigrants, many were
             scholars and such. While there Horney met Harry Stack Sullivan and Erich Fromm,
             tarrying for an affair with the latter.
             Brooklyn led to a new chapter in Horney's professional creativity and suc
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