Neurosis and Personal Growth. The Struggle for Self-Realization

In this book, the author reveals the theme of the neurotic process remarkably easily and accessibly, understanding it as "a special form of human development, extremely unsuccessful due to the waste of creative energy, thereby condemning a person to suffering."
Due... to the author's unique gift of writing simply and accessibly, her work appeals to everyone, from clinical specialists to people completely unrelated to psychology. They are united only by the fact that they all encounter neurotic manifestations both in themselves and in those around them. With her help, we can recognize neurotic pathology in a person who has forgotten about themselves, their purpose, feelings, and aspirations, and has completely focused on external stimuli, which has made them dependent and defenseless, subjected to external control and enslavement. "And if all this is not close to a person, not their personal, conscious and reasoned opinion, confirmed by indisputable facts, — the person is mentally ill, they have sold their soul to the devil," as Karen Horney metaphorically expresses, or has renounced their selfhood, betrayed themselves, locking their soul in a world of suffering, hatred, and fear.