Zitat des Tages von Karl Abraham:
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
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 anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.