Dexter Horney Case Study

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Horney's Psychoanalytic Approach best fits Dexter's personality because he is the perfect person to describe all three of the neurotic types she described. Dexter's childhood is what had the biggest impact on his approach into adulthood and the person he grows into becoming. Dexter never cared about people in the way a normal person would. Love and appreciation was ever important to him because he could never reciprocate those feelings. After he married Rita and takes in her children as his own, he begins to exhibit his own version of love and appreciation towards his own family. Dexter is also very close with his sister Deb and relies on her as a main constant in his life even though he keeps his dark side hidden from her. He never wants

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