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The preoccupation with economic growth: An analysis informed by horneyan theory

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  1. City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

    Paul L. Wachtel Ph.D. (Distinguished Professor)

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An earlier version of this paper, entitled “Karen Horney, Social Neurosis, and the Analysis of American Culture,” was presented to the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis on May 18, 1989. Some of the material in this paper was originally published in P. L. Wachtel,The Poverty of Affluence: A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1989).

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Wachtel, P.L. The preoccupation with economic growth: An analysis informed by horneyan theory. Am J Psychoanal 51, 89–103 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01252166

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