ABSTRACT
A small note in Alpina, the daily newspaper of the Swiss alpine clubs, comments that on 29 July 1905, Doctor Karl Abraham with a guide, had climbed and crossed for the first time the Daelli Point, and from there had reached the other unnamed peak. Without a doubt, the Burghozli clinic constituted the ideal breeding ground to channel interests of someone who was committed to psychiatric academicism. The years that Abraham spent at the clinic prepared him so that he became receptive and sensitive to psychoanalytical ideas. Abraham was married in Switzerland on 23 June, one year after beginning his employment at the clinic in Zurich. They were married by a rabbi, and after a short honeymoon, they moved into an apartment on Forchstrasse, close to the Burgholzli. The contrast between the sterile atmosphere of Dalldorf and the innovative work carried out at Burgholzli, where Bleuler, already interested in Freud's work, brought order to the chaos of psychiatric concepts, Abraham.
