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Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939 - Papers Online

Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939

Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856. His father
was a small time merchant, and Freud's mother was his second wife. Freud
had two half-brothers some 20 years older than himself. His family moved to
Vienna when he was four years old, and though he often claimed he hated the
city, he lived there until it was occupied by Germany in 1938. Freud's
family background was Jewish, though his father was a freethinker and Freud
himself an avowed atheist.

Freud was a good student, and very ambitious. Medicine and law were the
professions then open to Jewish men, and in 1873 he entered the University
of Vienna medical school. He was interested in science above all; the idea
of ...

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would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this
patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She
had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak
French and English, couldn't drink water even when thirsty, and so on.
Breuer discovered that if he hypnotized her, she would talk of things she
did not remember in the conscious state, and afterwards her symptoms were
relieved -- thus it was called "the talking cure." Freud went to Paris for
further study under , a neurologist known all over Europe for his studies
of hysterics and use of hypnosis.

In 1886, Freud returned to Vienna, opened a private practice specializing
in nervous and brain disorders, and married. He tried hypnotism with his
hysteric and neurotic patients, but gradually discarded the practice. He
found he could get patients to talk just by putting them in a relaxing
position (the couch) and encouraging them to say whatever came into their
heads (free ...

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Added: 1/5/2006 05:12:09 AM
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