Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly affected how you think?

Re:Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly aff... by kfnn on Monday December 21, 2015 @04:44AM (#10770353)

Karen Horney - Neurosis and Human Growth

The book attempts to describe the complete process of neurotic personality development: how and why it starts, how it affects a person's behavior and life choices. It's full of references to real-life cases Horney encountered as a psychoanalyst.

Many concepts presented in this book where a revelation to me, and I believe it significantly deepened my understanding of myself and human psychology in general.

I think anyone could benefit from reading this, because even if you're not neurotic at all, you will inevitably meet someone who is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosis_and_Human_Growth

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Re:Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly aff... by zeeed on Monday December 21, 2015 @07:35AM (#10770783)

Is this work still state-of-the-art, given that it has been written in 1950?

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Re:Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly aff... by kfnn on Monday December 21, 2015 @09:02AM (#10771066)

I honestly have no idea. I did a quick search and I couldn't find any notable further works on neurosis in the field of psychoanalysis (perhaps E.Fromm, Adler? But this is the same generation). Surely other branches of psychology keep studying the subject.

To me personally, Horney's observations felt enough accurate and complete, so I wasn't really looking for other books on the subject.

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