Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was born in Freiberg, Moravia, now Příbor in the Czech Republic, to a Jewish family that moved to Vienna when he was four. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna and did research on the nervous system. In Paris he studied with Jean-Martin Charcot, who used hypnosis to treat patients with hysteria. With his colleague Josef Breuer he developed a talking cure, in which patients spoke freely about their memories and feelings. Freud came to believe that much of the mind is unconscious, that forgotten experiences from childhood shape adult life, and that dreams and slips of the tongue reveal hidden wishes. He set these ideas out in The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, and developed psychoanalysis, a method of treatment through free association and the analysis of dreams. His followers, including Carl Jung and Alfred Adler, later broke with him. His ideas were highly influential in the twentieth century and also widely criticized as unscientific. When the Nazis took over Austria in 1938, he fled to London, where he died in 1939. Four of his sisters died in Nazi camps.

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Faith: Born Jewish; he left Nazi-annexed Austria for England in 1938. Source: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy