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Abraham, K. (1912). Letter from Karl Abraham to Sigmund Freud, December 27, 1912. The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham 1907-1925, 171-172

Letter from Karl Abraham to Sigmund Freud, December 27, 1912

Karl Abraham

147A

Berlin
27 December 1912

Dear Professor,

It is only today that I find time to send you a sign of life. The indisposition that began in Vienna worsened somewhat over the next few days. Now I am better and do not want to delay any longer in sending you, first of all, my thanks. What for is, however, difficult to enumerate. And it is almost impossible to thank with words for the warm reception in your home, and for all the personal interest you showed in me. If a recent criticism made of you is justified—that you treat your followers like patients1—then I have to reproach you with several grave technical errors. First, you spoil your patients, and it is well known that one should not do so. Second, you have given presents to the patient, which might give him a completely wrong idea of the treatment. And finally, before my departure from treatment, you had secretly been in my hotel to pay the bill. “If you had been a psychoanalyst”, you would not have done suc

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