Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst. She questioned some of Sigmund Freud's theories, specifically the ones about sexuality. In response to Freud's Theory of Penis Envy she founded feminist psychology. Feminist psychology centred on social structures and gender. Horney disagreed with Freud about inherent differences inthe psychology of men and women, and she traced such differences to society and culture rather than biology.
In 1932 she accepted a position at the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis, mostly due to the rise of Nazism in Germany. After two years she relocated to Brooklyn, New York. She taught and trained psychoanalysts while working at the New School for Social Research and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
After Horney's death, the Karen Horney Clinic opened on 6 May 1955 in New York City. It continues to research and train medical professionals in the psychiatric fields to serve in a low cost treatment centre.
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