Abraham is one of the pioneers of psychoanalytic therapy on subjects such as libido development, character formation, schizophrenia, and manic-depressive psychosis.
(1877-1925) German psychoanalyst. He is known for his work on personality development and the role of child sexuality in mental illness. He was born on May 3, 1877, in Bremen. He became a soul nurse in 1901. Between 1904 and 1907 he was Eugen Bleuler's assistant at the Burghölzi Mental Hospital in Zürich. His encounter with Carl Jung during this period led him to become more interested in Sigmund Freud's thoughts. He met Freud in 1907. He founded the German Psychoanalytic Society in 1910. He died in Berlin on December 25, 1925.
In his first psychoanalytic work, Abraham revealed the relationship between childhood sexual traumas and the symptoms of schizophrenia. After founding the German Psychoanalytical Association, Abraham's interpretations of symbols and the correlation he established between myths and dreams were widely accepted among psychoanalysts.
Karl Abraham is one of the major contributors to the spread and acceptance of the psychoanalytic movement outside of Vienna. He shaped his theory based on clinical data. He developed psychoanalysis through his clinical work on psychoses and his studies of the importance of libido in the pre-sex phase. His most important work on the treatment of psychoses with psychoanalysis is on manic-depressive psychoses resulting from obsessions with libido.
Abraham is one of the pioneers of psychoanalytic therapy on subjects such as libido development, character formation, schizophrenia, and manic-depressive psychosis. He was also the first psychoanalyst to suggest that child development consists of oral, anal, and phallic stages and that an obsession in any of these stages can lead to certain mental disorders.