Karl Abraham

Karl Abraham ( May 3, 1877 in Bremen, † December 25, 1925 in Berlin) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist and as such an important representative of psychoanalysis.

Biography

Profession

Karl Abraham studied medicine in Würzburg and Berlin and received his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau. 1904 to 1907 he was assistant to Eugen Bleuler at the Burgholzli in Zurich. During this time he became acquainted with psychoanalysis of C. G. Jung. He was a student and close associate of Sigmund Freud, and participated in its Wednesday Association in Vienna before 1908 in Berlin settled as a neurologist and the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society founded. In 1920 he co-founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute Max Eitington where many famous analysts have been trained or taught (eg, Erich Fromm, Michael Balint and René A. Spitz ).

Student of Karl Abraham were Franz Alexander, Felix Boehm, Helene German, Rudolf Foerster, Edward Glover, James Glover, Karen Horney, Melanie Klein, Hans Liebermann, Josine Müller (born Ebsen, 1884-1930 ), Carl Müller- Braunschweig, Sándor Radó, Theodor Reik, Ernst Simmel, Alix Strachey ( 1892-1973 ).

Karl Abraham, Sigmund Freud's psychosexual development theory with additional ( sub-) phases:

In addition, he has been working from a psychoanalytic perspective with dream symbolism, parent- child relationship, ethnology, neuroses and psychoses as well as art.

Family

Karl Abraham (from January 1906) with Hedwig Abraham (born Bürgner, * 1878, † 1969), married. They came both Jewish families. Karl Abraham had Hedwig met a sister of his friend Hans Bürgner, a Berlin lawyer and notary, in Berlin in 1901. Hedwig Abraham and their children, Hilda ( * 1906 in Zurich, † 1971) and Grant ( * 1910 in Berlin, †? ), Escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to England in 1938.

Honors

  • Karl Abraham was buried in the Park Cemetery Lichterfelde in Berlin light field. The tomb is one of the graves honor the State of Berlin.
  • In Berlin, remember two memorial plaques to Karl Abraham, one of his former home Bismarck Allee 14, and since 2006 a further out of line with Freud in Berlin at the house Rankestraße 24
  • The Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was in 1970 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary commemoration of its founding in addition the name of its co-founder Karl Abraham, and is now called also Karl Abraham Institute.

Works

  • Psychoanalytic Studies / Collected Works. Edited by John Cremerius. 2 vols psycho- social -Verlag, Giessen 1999.
  • Letters 1907-1926 ( correspondence with Sigmund Freud), 2nd revised edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • Sigmund Freud / Karl Abraham: correspondence 1907-1925. Full output 2 vols, ed. Ernst Falzeder / Ludger M. Hermanns. Turia Kant, Vienna, 2009.
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