By emphasizing social and cultural influences, dimensions she felt Freud overlooked, not only did Horney challenge Freud's psychosexual view of personality, she pioneered a new dimension to psychological thought: gender-based psychology. ... While a well-structured theory, with distinct descriptions of personality styles, Maltby, Day & Macaskill, (2010) argue that Horney's concepts are essentially vague and lack testability. ...

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