Nodes

Relations

At rest every relation is a thin grey line. Its colour shows on hover and in focus.

Person

1877–1925

Image credit: Marie Boehm (Becker & Maass studio, Berlin), 1920Public domainWikimedia Commons

Founder of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society; analyst of Melanie Klein and Karen Horney.

Born: 1877
Died: 1925
Influenced: Karen Horney
Melanie Klein
Notable works: A Revised Psychopathology of the Psychoses and Psychoneuroses1941
Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank1985
+1 more

Karen Horney 1910 Horney began analysis with Abraham in Berlin in 1910, while still a medical student and young wife.
Melanie Klein 1924

Otto Rank 1924 Karl Abraham led the opposition within Freud's inner circle to Rank's Das Trauma der Geburt and to the book Rank wrote with Ferenczi in 1924.
Ronald Fairbairn In the 1941 paper Fairbairn criticised Abraham's scheme of libidinal phases and replaced it with stages defined by the quality of dependence on objects.