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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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“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 Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness, by Peter Bryan Warr, Routledge (2007) p.161.
Quoted in Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness, by Peter Bryan Warr, Routledge (2007) p.161.
