Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis

karl baraham came from and old hansiatic family , well established in the merchant class...he was born in 1879 in breman and received a quality early education...he studied medicine at several german universities, studied with jung at the burghosel in zurich and there became acquaintesd with the writings of freud thru his association with jung.....he appears to be a man who was very observant and insightrful and applied whjat made sense from his study of the current psychoanalytic theories of the time...also open to reformulate hie thinking from clinical work...his achievements include the establishment of the berlin psychoanalytic instsitute in 1920..and having under treatment such formatable figures of early psychoanalytic endeavors as karen horney, helene deutch, and others...unfortunately he died form an infection contracted during the great war..and was in poor health from that point on...however he continued to do clinical work and contribute to theory building until his death in 1925, at age 48...he was characecterized by earnest jones in his memorium as a civil, gentle man who could bring together disparate factions of the early movement...his most significant achievement in my estimation was his adherence to the seduction theory that freud has dismissed ..abraham is truly a giant in the formative years of the art and science of psychoanalysis...