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 Sigmund Freud
Austrian Originator of Psycho-Analysis

 1856 - 1939

Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea.
They become powerless when they oppose it.
                                 —Sigmund Freud


 


Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 at Freiberg, Moravia, now Pribor in the Czech Republic. Freud developed the techniques of "Psycho-Analysis" for the treatment of psychological and emotional disorders.

 Freud graduated as Doctor of Medicine from the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1881. In September 1891 Freud moved to 19 Berggasse in Vienna where he lived and worked for the next 47 years. In 1896 in his paper, "The Aetiology of Hysteria," Freud first used the term "Psycho-Analysis." In October of 1902 a circle of physicians grouped around Freud began a weekly discussion of Psycho-Analysis. From 1908 on the group called itself "Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society." In 1910 the "International Psycho-Analytical Association" was formed in Nuremberg with Swiss psychologist Carl Jung as the first president. Psycho-analysis soon gained acceptance all over the world as a scientific discipline and as a therapeutical approach.

 On March 12, 1938 German troops marched into Austria and the Nazis assumed power. Freud's daughter Anna was arrested on March 22 by the Gestapo and held for a day. On June 4, following numerous international interventions, Freud was allowed to emigrate to London with his wife, his youngest daughter Anna, his housekeeper Paula Fichtl and his medical caretaker Josefine Stross. Freud's other children also managed to escape. His brother lost all his property when he left Vienna, and four elderly and infirm sisters were forced to remain in Vienna and killed in concentration camps in 1941. Freud moved to a house at 20 Maresfield Gardens in London's Hampstead section.

 Sigmund Freud died on September 23, 1939. "The Sigmund Freud Museum" was opened in his former office at 19 Berggasse, Vienna in 1971.

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  • Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision--An Analytical Biography - Author: Louis Breger

  •  Dr. Breger has done both the psychoanalytic world and the public in general a major service by providing us with a clear picture of both Freud as a man and of the development of psychoanalytic thought from Freud's early ideas to the current state of the science. We are given a very believable picture of Freud as a man, as a thinker and as a leader. This is sophisticated research and writing. Readers will come away having seen reality clashing with long held myths and reality winning. No longer must the public feel that all psychoanalytic thinking started and ended with Freud but the field has really progressed. All this along with brilliant and extremely readable prose. — Ramon Greenberg, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

     Click here to purchase this Hardcover edition of "Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision"
     
     

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