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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