When1: 1921
When2: 1924
Who: Karl Abraham [Abraham, Karl]
What: psychologist
Where: Berlin, Germany
works\ Contributions to the Theory of the Anal Character [1921]; Short Study of the Development of the Libido [1924]
Detail: He lived 1877 to 1925 and developed a personal-development theory and a psychoanalysis variant. Instinctual energy discharge {discharge of instinct} requires another person or thing. People have emotional involvement with objects or internal representations. Obsession is strong focus on emotional object for fear of losing it. Depression is loss of emotional object, and people attempt to restore it. All children need to attachment to a mother-like person. Medial temporal lobe makes declarative memories but not short-term memory, memory storage, or procedural memories.
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