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Karl Abraham
(3 May 1877 - 25 Dec 1925)
German psychoanalyst who studied the role of childhood sexual trauma in relation to the symptoms of mental illness. He was initiated into psychoanalysis by Carl Gustav Jung (1904).
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Science Quotes by Karl Abraham (1 quote)
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
— Karl Abraham
From Observations on Ferenczi's paper on 'Sunday Neuroses' (1918). Quoted in Peter Bryan Warr, Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness (2007), 161.
See also:
- 3 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Abraham's birth.
- Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, by Karl Abraham. - book suggestion.