Mental Patients Quotes by Karl Abraham

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

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