SOURCE: "Karen Horney: A Pioneer in the Science of Human Relations," American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1954, pp. 19-29.

In the following essay, which was originally presented at a psychiatric conference on 22 April 1953, Cameron addresses the main aspects of Horney's thought and lauds her ability to incorporate into her work the social and historical issues of her time.

Karen Horney was one of the children of her times. She walked among us distinguished by her originality of mind and by her leadership. Her life fell within a period of unusual turbulence and ferment in the world of thought. The long upward climb of humanism, which had started as far back as the time of the Renaissance and which was gathering strength to become one of the most important forces of our times, was met and vastly stimulated by another current having its origins very early in the modern...