Fedelina Paul Case Study

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Biographical Background Fedelina Paul (pronounced “fa-li-na”) was born in 1993 at Lewes, Delaware, into a working class family that was economically just holding on. Both her mother and father are of Haitian descent, and the entire remainder of her family (including aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents) still currently resides in Haiti. As a child, Fedelina traveled with her mother one time in eighth grade to go see the foreign land, and with that experience it shaped a new view of another culture and a realistic view of poverty. Although Fedelina loved her mother, she was overly protective, strict, bossy, and often criticized her decision making and responses. Her father on the other hand was calm, cool, and collective for the most part, …show more content…

During childhood, if a child isn’t show the basic needs of affection and love, they could potentially suffer from basic anxiety. Basic anxiety is an insidiously increasing, feeling of being alone in the world. Often times basic anxiety can lead to feelings of insecurity and also distant from your common environment which is referred to as basic evils. Horney then center her focused on the neurotic needs or trends that we commonly used to minimize feelings of anxiety when we are attempting to relate to others. For example, the need for a dominant partner, the exaggerated need for social recognition, or the need for perfection. “These neurotic needs and trends then produce primary modes in which helps us relate to people; moving towards (compliance), moving against (hostility), and moving away (detachment). These three types of behaviors leads then lead to three basic solutions towards life: self-effacing, which is an appeal to be loved; self-expansive, an attempt at mastery; and the resignation, a desire to be free of …show more content…

Majority of Horney’s personality theory reflects off of her life experience. Horney makes note on neurotic trends, which are experiences that we encounter, that then create basic anxiety. She theorizes that when people develop basic anxiety when relating to others, there are three fundamental behaviors we reveal, moving towards, moving against, or moving away from people. With the variety of the neurotic trends (10 to be exact), they are then behaviors that are lead to what is called basic orientation, self-effacing solution, self-expansive solution, and resignation

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