Born 3 May 1877; died 25 Dec 1925 at age 48.

#German #psychoanalyst who studied who studied the role of #childhood #sexual #trauma in relation to the symptoms of #mental #illness.

He was initiated into psychoanalysis by Carl Gustav Jung (1904).

He first met Sigmund Freud in 1907, and subsequently became one of his most reliable collaborators.

Covering a wide range, Abraham's papers include work on #depression, #mania, #autoerotism, #repressedhate, as well as others on applied #psychoanalysis that include papers on the Day of Atonement and a major one (1909) in which he connected #myths with #dreams and viewed both as wish-fulfillment #fantasies.

Abraham founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society (1910). He made pioneering efforts in the psychoanalytic #treatment of manic- depressive #psychosis.

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