“A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.” PersonsAbleWorkNumbersSeriousProtectIntenseNeuroticOutbreaks Author:Karl Abraham
“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.” StatesDreamPleasureGainsFunctionNeuroticAvoidanceDispleasure Book:Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D. Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.
“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.” LongHas BeensDifferentFormChoicesIndividualDifficultConditionsDiseaseLong TimeDetermineIllnessPsychologicalImpulseNeuroticSelectedDifficult Questions Book:Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D. Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.
