[1][2] When he was four years old, the local paper reported that he had broken his leg falling on a sidewalk, and that he suffered from "an affection of the spine".
That same year, Graven authored a paper "The Analytic Treatment of Epilepsy" which was published in the German Journal Fortschritte der Sexualwissenschaft und Psychoanalyse (Advances in Sexology and Psychoanalysis).
In 1924, Graven was a charter member of the Washington DC Psychoanalytic Association, where he presented a paper titled "An Analysis of a Case of Vampirism".
[12] In 1925, Graven and his wife made a trip from the United States back to Austria to visit her relatives.
[17] In 1930, while at St. Elizabeth's, Graven authored a paper titled "Case Study of a Negro", one of the earliest psychoanalytic discussions of African-Americans.