Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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Sigmund Freud was born in Moravia.
At the age of 5 years his family moved to Vienna. Freud
was an excellent student and always ahead of his class.
Therefore, he had no problem to enrol to medical school.
He got involved with psychology,when he got to know Professor
Ernst Brücke under who's direction he started doing research.
At those times it was hard to get accepted to neurological
training facilities, however, Brücke helped Freud to get
a grant to study in Paris and Nancy.
After Sigmund Freud returned to Vienna, he set up a practice
in neuropsychiatry. He started to work in psychological
fields concerning the conscious mind and earned recognition
with his revolutionary theories of the id, the ego and the
superego and his work with psychoanalysis. In 1938, after
Austria was affiliated by Nazi Germany, Sigmund Freud, being
a famous Jewish scientist had no choice, but to immigrate
to the United Kingdom. He stayed there until he died of
cancer in 1939.
Freud's work was revolutionary
at his times and especially adopted in the United States,
where they are still basis to most modern psychological
treatments. Nowadays, his theories are somewhat challenged
as being too focused on sexual processes. His importance
as the father of psychoanalysis can't be denied. Furthermore,
his publications on hysteria, the working of jokes, Oedipus
complex or the interpretation of dreams are written in elegant
and precise German, they are a good read!
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