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"The book Our internal conflicts, with the subtitle Constructive theory of neurosis, is one of two key works that characterize the mature phase of her creativity. Another major work is Neurosis and Human Aging, written in 1950. It belongs to the research of this psychoanalyst, which marks her creative rise. There, the theory of neurosis has already been formulated in a convincing way. Conflict is her prolific preoccupation. From it arose the belief that internal conflicts are the essential problems of neuroses...

Karen Hornaj pointed out that most people go through various phases and conflicts within themselves and that they apply different defense mechanisms in dealing with the environment and their own internal unrest. Thus, a person can be tame in one situation, aggressive in another, or temporarily withdraw from the world into silence and isolation, without any of these phases being a reason for anxiety, nor a sign of a diseased state...

Karen Hornaj has repeatedly drawn attention, based on her many years of experience, to the fact that a neurotic person decides to seek help when he sees that his defense mechanisms do not bring improvement and that the key functions of life are threatened...

And conflict still remains an inevitable characteristic of human existence. This is one of the important reasons why I see Karen Hornaj's theory of conflicts as an unavoidable experience in the rich history of psychoanalysis." - from the Preface.