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Karl Abraham

Karl Abraham Biography

Psychoanalyst

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“Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.”

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Book:Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones
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“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 between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.”

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Book:Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.
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