ABSTRACT
The decision to leave Switzerland was not easy for Karl Abraham; the Burghölzli offered him the opportunity for scientific enrichment and provided him with stability to form a family. On 21 December 1907 Abraham moved to Berlin, the city of the "Freudian meetings with Fliess". He became the first German doctor to have a private psychoanalytic practice. In June 1908, Albert Moll, a criminologist from Berlin who specialised in nervous disorders, invited Abraham to collaborate with a new journal; he accepted. In August 1908 Abraham founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society with five members: Juliusburger, Hirschfeld, Iwan Bloch, Heinrich Körber and himself. The connection between Freud and Jung was based on affective and political aspects while Freud's relationship with Abraham was clearly based on psychoanalytic theory. Abraham participated in the first nine congresses. As well as contributing with papers and conferences he was the president of the fifth congress in Budapest and the ninth in Bad-Hombourg, shortly before his death.
