Sigmund Freud | |
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![]() Sigmund Freud, by Max Halberstadt, 1921 | |
Born | Sigismund Schlomo Freud 6 May 1856 |
Died | 23 September 1939 London, England, UK | (aged 83)
Nationality | Austrian |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Known for | Psychoanalysis |
Awards | Goethe Prize Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neurology Psychotherapy Psychoanalysis |
Institutions | University of Vienna |
Influences | Aristotle, Brentano, Breuer, Charcot, Darwin, Dostoyevsky, Goethe, Haeckel, Hartmann, Jackson, Jacobsen, Kant, Mayer, Nietzsche, Plato, Schopenhauer, Shakespeare, Sophocles |
Influenced | Eugen Bleuler, John Bowlby, Viktor Frankl, Anna Freud, Erich Fromm, Otto Gross, Karen Horney, Arthur Janov, Ernest Jones, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Fritz Perls, Otto Rank, Wilhelm Reich |
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Sigmund Freud (Moravia, 6 May 1856 – London, 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist (a person who treats the nervous system).[2] He invented the treatment of mental illness and neurosis by means of psychoanalysis.[3]
Freud is important in psychology because he studied the unconscious mind. The unconscious part of the mind cannot be easily controlled or noticed by a person.
In 1860, he and his family moved to Vienna. He did well in school and became a doctor. Freud married Martha Bernays in 1886. They had six children.[4]
Freud lived in Austria in the 1930s. After the Anschluss, Germany and Austria were combined. Because he was Jewish, he received a visit from the Gestapo. Freud and his family did not feel safe anymore. Freud left Vienna and went to England in June 1938.[5]
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