A female given name. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s
I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.
Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Rather, they have defined themselves in terms of their common distrust of political domination by Myanmar, which has persisted since the country attained independence in 1948. Horney Karen Karen Danielsen Karen Christence Dinesen
the anglicized pronunciation of a Danish form of Catherine; first taken up as a given name in the U.S. in the 1930s, and quite popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s
orig. Karen Danielsen born Sept. 16, 1885, Blankenese, near Hamburg, Ger. died Dec. 4, 1952, New York, N.Y., U.S. German-U.S. psychoanalyst. After receiving her M.D. degree, she underwent psychoanalytic training with Karl Abraham, and from 1920 to 1932 she conducted a private practice while also teaching at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. Settling in New York City in 1934, she began teaching at the New School for Social Research. She departed from some of Sigmund Freud's basic principles, rejecting his concept of penis envy and emphasizing the need to help patients identify and cope with the specific causes of current anxieties rather than focus on childhood traumas and fantasies. Expelled from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 1941, she organized a new group, the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Her works include The Neurotic Personality of Our Time (1937) and New Ways in Psychoanalysis (1939)
a Danish writer who wrote in English using the man's name Isak Dinesen. Her most famous book, Out of Africa, describes her life on a coffee farm in Kenya (1885-1962)