Sigmund Freud Biography
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, a method for treating mental illness and understanding human behavior. He was born on May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia, which is now part of the Czech Republic, and died on September 23, 1939, in London, England. Freud was the eldest of eight children and grew up in a Jewish family. His father was a wool merchant and his mother was a homemaker. Freud attended the University of Vienna and received his medical degree in 1881. He then began working as a doctor and researcher at the Vienna General Hospital. In the late 1880s, Freud began to develop his ideas about psychoanalysis. He believed that many mental illnesses were caused by repressed feelings and memories, and that the unconscious mind played a significant role in shaping human behavior. He developed a technique called free association, in which patients would talk freely about their thoughts and feelings without censorship or interruption, in order to acces...