Sigmund Freud

Freud was born in Freiberg in what is now Czechoslovakia on May 6,

1856. He attended the University of Vienna in Austria.

Sigmund Freud is the founder of the science of psychology .

Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychiatry, did believe that

half-conscious gestures, or forgetting a person’s name, or other
seemingly trivial incidents, could be an indicator of something deeper,
and clearly in some cases he was right.
The 1899 publication of his book The Interpretation of Dreams
established the basic groundwork for the theories and ideas that
formed psychoanalysis.

Freud was born as Sigismund Schlomo Freud on May 6, 1856. His

father Joseph was a 41-year-old wool merchant who already had two
children from a previous marriage. Freud's mother, Amalia, was twenty
years younger than her husband. The failure of his father's business
forced the Freud family to move from their home in Freiberg, Moravia
to Vienna.

Freud has seven siblings, yet he often described himself as his

mother's special favorite - her "golden Siggie." I have found that
people who know that they are preferred or favored by their mothers
give evidence in their lives of a peculiar self-reliance and an
unshakable optimism which often bring actual success to their
possessors," Freud once suggested (Grubin, 2002).

SIGMUND FREUD is best known for his studies of sthe unconscious

mind, dreams interpretation and also subjects related to exual desire,
repression, and Freud's theories and research methods were
controversial during his life and remain so today, but few dispute his
far-reaching impact on psychologists and academics.

Most importantly, Freud popularized the "talking-cure"--the notion that

a person could be treated simply by talking over his or her problems,
which was almost unheard of in the 19th century. Even though many
psychotherapists today partly or wholly reject the specifics of Freud's
theories, this basic model of treatment stems largely from his work.

In addition, Freud's development of "unconscious" sources of behavior

and his emphasis on motivational structures of the human mind have
had a lasting impact on psychological theory and research. However,
most of Freud's specific theories--like his stages of psychosexual
development--and especially his methodology, have fallen out of favor
in modern experimental psychology.
Some psychotherapists, however, still follow an approximately
Freudian system of treatment. Many more have modified his approach,
or joined one of the schools that branched from his original theories
(see Neo-Freudian). Still others reject his theories entirely, although
their practice may still reflect his influence.

Through The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud represented an

attempt to divide the mind into three regions called, The unconscious,
The Preconscious and The Conscious, which were distinguished from
one another by their relationship to consciousness.

Freud had a penchant for rejecting people who did not totally agree
with him.

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

Sigmund Freud was deathly afraid of the number 62 and would not
book a room in any hotel with more than 62 rooms in case he was
allotted that particular room!

Diagnosed with cancer in 1923 due to frequent cigar smoking, Freud

underwent over 30 surgeries over the next 16 years.

Freud had been a heavy cigar smoker all his life. In 1939, after his
cancer had been deemed inoperable, Freud asked his doctor to help
him commit suicide. The doctor administered three separate doses of
morphine and Freud died September 23, 1939.