Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. - Karl Abraham
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
- 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 plea… - 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 plea…
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anx… - Karl Abraham
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anx…
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. - Karl Abraham
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual. - Karl Abraham
The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of th… - Karl Abraham
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of th…
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will ea… - Karl Abraham
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will ea…
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient a… - Karl Abraham
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient a…
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. - Karl Abraham
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
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