Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
