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Karen Horney received her medical degree from the University of Berlin in 1913. At the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute founded in 1920, she was a lecturer and training analyst. In 1992 she came to the United States as associate director of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and two years later became a training analyst and lecturer at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1941, Dr. Horney, together with a number of other psychoanalysts, founded the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. She later became the founding editor of The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, and she is the author of numerous books, the most well known being The Neurotic Personality of Our Time.
