Karl Abraham

Bentinck van Schoonheten, Anna

• Series Editor’s Foreword -- Introduction -- Childhood in Bremen -- Student years -- Doctor’s assistant in Dalldorf -- Burghölzli -- The first meetings between Freud and staff from the Burghölzli Clinic -- A private practice and the first psychoanalytic conflict -- Psychoanalysis in Berlin -- Segantini and depression -- A meeting with Fließ, family life, and the failed Habilitation -- Akhenaten -- The secret committee -- An unhappy writer, scopophilia, and other peculiarities -- The First World War -- A great turnaround -- Creation of a theory about early childhood and ejaculatio praecox -- The final war years in Allenstein -- The congress in Budapest of 1918 -- Germany in chaos, yet the creation of a psychoanalytic polyclinic in Berlin goes ahead -- The congress in The Hague from 8 to 11 September 1920 -- The issue of lay analysis and Abraham in a tight corner -- Psychoanalysis flourishes in Berlin -- Unrest in Germany and a successful congress in Berlin -- Young talent pours in -- Psychoanalytic techniques and Helene Deutsch -- Innovative work -- The conflict surrounding Rank and the disintegration of the committee -- Melanie Klein and fellow analysands -- Abraham's death -- Upheaval -- Afterword -- Sources -- Interviews