Sigmund Freud | |
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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) |
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). He invented the treatment of mental illness and neurosis by means of psychoanalysis.
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 his family moved with their little boy to Vienna. He did well in school and became a doctor. Freud married Martha Bernays in 1886. They had six children.