ABSTRACT
Abraham's attempts to secure a position as doctor's assistant in Zurich were finally successful. On 8 December 1904, he started work as second assistant in the Burgholzli Clinic. There is no telling how psychoanalysis might have developed without Eugen Bleuler and Zurich's university psychiatric clinic, the Burgholzli. The Burgholzli Clinic became famous under Auguste Forel, who was its director from 1879 and at the same time professor of psychiatry at Zurich University. It became world famous under Forel's successor Eugen Bleuler, who became director and professor of psychiatry in 1898. He was from a farming family in Zollikon on the eastern shores of Lake Zurich. Sigmund Freud was very conscious of the importance of Bleuler and the Burgholzli for the development and dissemination of psychoanalysis. Carl Gustav Jung acquired such a prominent place in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement that he was wrongly assumed to have introduced psychoanalysis at the Burgholzli.
