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Dr med. K. Abraham
Berlin W. 35, Schöneberger Ufer 22
9 March 1909
Dear Professor,
This time I have to thank you for your detailed letter, which contained so much that is pleasing to me personally, and also for the offprint and the Kleine Schriften.1 Your statements about the hysterical attack, which I find particularly illuminating precisely because of their being short and sharp, caused an attack from Oppenheim while he was examining a hysterical woman in the polyclinic yesterday: it would simply be outrageous, etc. That very day one of his assistants suggested to him that one might ask the patients of the polyclinic a little about their sexual life—but he rejected this with strong affect. So you hit the mark with your opinion of O. Berlin psychotherapy is altogether something