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2 unusual facts about Karl Abraham


Karl Abraham

He analyzed various myths suggesting their relation to dreams (1909) and wrote an interpretation of the spiritual activities of the Egyptian monotheistic Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (1912).

Sylvia Payne

She went to Berlin, where she underwent analysis with Hans Sachs and got to know Karl Abraham.


Burghölzli

In addition to Jung, many renowned psychiatrists spent part of their career at the Burghölzli, including Karl Abraham, Ludwig Binswanger, Eugène Minkowski, Hermann Rorschach, Franz Riklin, Constantin von Monakow, Adolf Meyer, Abraham Brill and Emil Oberholzer.

The Trauma of Birth

Both Karl Abraham and Ernest Jones expressed opposition to The Trauma of Birth, since they believed that it implicitly contradicted some of Freud's basic ideas.


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