Friday, August 16, 2019

Karl Abraham: Life and Work, a Biography (The History of Psychoanalysis Series) (Anna Bentinck van Schoonheten, Routledge, 2018)

This book provides the reader with rich evidence of the very contemporaneity of Karl Abraham, reminding the reader of his unique clinical contributions to such diverse areas of concentration as the psychoses, depression, and the pre-oedipal. (amazon) (kindle 2019-8-16)


  About the Author

Anna Bentinck van Schoonheten is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Amsterdam. She is a member of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Group, the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society and the IPA, and President of the Board of the Dutch Journal of Psychoanalysis. She specializes in the early history of psychoanalysis, with a special focus on Freud and the secret committee. She has conducted extensive research on Karl Abraham and the role of the secret committee in the development of psychoanalytic theory. (amazon)