Sigmund Freud Facts
Sigmund Freud Facts
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| Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born to Jewish parents in Pribor, which is now a part of the Czech Republic. |
| In 1859 the family moved to Leipzig and in 1860 to Vienna. |
| There four more girls and a boy were born into the family to join Freud and his sister, Anna. |
| In 1865 Freud entered the Leopoldstadter Kommunal-Realgymnasium. |
| He was an excellent student and graduated with honors. |
| He learned German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek. |
| In 1873 he entered the University of Vienna where he studied medicine. |
| In 1876 he spent a month in Trieste dissecting and studying eels. |
| In 1881 he received his MD and started work at Vienna General Hospital. |
| He published a paper on uses for cocaine, "On Coca," declared it a cure for morphine addiction and as an antidepressant. |
| Unfortunately this was not correct and cocaine turned out to also be highly addictive. |
| In 1891 he published his first book, On the Aphasias: a Critical Study. |
| He became a lecturer in neuropathology at the University in 1885. |
| In 1886 he started his private psychiatric practice. |
| He had studied hypnosis with Jean-Martin Charcot in Paris and used it in his own practice. |
| His work with one patient, named Anna O, led Freud to the conclusion that even without hypnosis, talking freely could relieve their symptoms. |
| Freud termed his new technique, psychoanalysis. |
| He used the technique on himself and this formed the basis of many of his later theories, including the Oedipus complex. |
| In 1899 he published The Interpretation of Dreams. |
| Freud invited a small group of physicians to meet weekly to discuss psychoanalysis. |
| This grew into a worldwide movement and spread Freud's ideas abroad. |
| By 1906 the group had 16 members and in 1907, Jung travelled from Switzerland to one of the meetings. |
| On April 27, 1908 the first International Psychoanalytic Congress was held. |
| In 1930 he won the Goethe Prize for his contributions to psychology. |
| In 1933 the Nazis came to power and burned many of Freud's books. |
| After Germany annexed Austria in 1938 Jews, including Freud and his family were in great danger. |
| There were many legal hurdles but on June 4, 1938 Freud left for England. |
| On September 23, Freud was suffering from severe pain due to cancer of the jaw and asked his friend, Max Schur, to administer fatal doses of morphine. |
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