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11 quotes by Karl Abraham

Karl Abraham Born 3 May 1877 Bremen Died 25 December 1925 Berlin Nationality German Fields Psychiatry Karl Abraham (German: [ˈaːbʀaham]; 3 May 1877 – 25 December 1925) was an early important and influential German psychoanalyst, and a collaborator of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil'.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

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A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will... →

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When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient... →

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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the... →

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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive... →

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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of... →

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Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

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Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly... →

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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

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