ABSTRACT

This book provides the reader with rich evidence of the very contemporaneity of Karl Abraham, reminding the reader of his unique clinical contributions to such diverse areas of concentration as the psychoses, depression, and the pre-oedipal.

chapter One|9 pages

Childhood in Bremen

chapter Two|7 pages

Student years

chapter Three|7 pages

Doctor’s assistant in Dalldorf

chapter Four|11 pages

Burghölzli

chapter Seven|15 pages

Psychoanalysis in Berlin

chapter Eight|11 pages

Segantini and depression

chapter Ten|10 pages

Akhenaten

chapter Eleven|8 pages

The secret committee

chapter Thirteen|5 pages

The First World War

chapter Fourteen|7 pages

A great turnaround

chapter Sixteen|8 pages

The final war years in Allenstein

chapter Seventeen|6 pages

The congress in Budapest of 1918

chapter Nineteen|11 pages

The congress in The Hague from 8 to 11 September 1920

chapter Twenty-One|8 pages

Psychoanalysis flourishes in Berlin

chapter Twenty-Two|10 pages

Unrest in Germany and a successful congress in Berlin

chapter Twenty-Three|6 pages

Young talent pours in

chapter Twenty-Four|14 pages

Psychoanalytic techniques and Helene Deutsch

chapter Twenty-Five|14 pages

Innovative work

chapter Twenty-Seven|14 pages

Melanie Klein and fellow analysands

chapter Twenty-Eight|21 pages

Abraham's death

chapter Twenty-Nine|7 pages

Upheaval

chapter |9 pages

Afterword