SOURCE: "Freud, Horney, Fromm and Others," in Science and Society, Vol. X, No. 2, 1946, pp. 176-85.

In the following essay, written in response to Francis Bartlett's essay "Recent Trends in Psychoanalysis" (Science and Society, Vol. IX, No. 3, Summer, 1945), Wortis examines Horney's theories in relation to both the Freudian tradition she rejects and to more contemporary trends, of which she claimed to be part. Wortis argues that Horney's conception of psychiatry is not as "progressive" as she claimed it was.

Bartlett's critique of Horney in this magazine [Science and Society] (Summer, 1945) seems to me to be basically correct and very welcome. It is precisely because Horney cast off some of the more flagrant errors of Freudianism that she has led so many people into another blind alley, perhaps more attractive than Freud's, but also more deceptive. Bartlett, like Horney, relates neurotic conflicts to the real world of social relationships, but...