Born in 1856 to a devout Jewish father, Freud spent his early years in Freiberg, Austria, where both his father's lessons in reading Hebrew scripture, and church excursions with his beloved ...

Freudian psychology is based on the work of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). He is considered the father of psychoanalysis and is largely credited with establishing the field of ...

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6th, 1856 in a rented room over a blacksmith's shop in Freiberg in Moravia, a small town in what is now a part of the Czech Republic, fifty miles north of Vienna.

This is how they wanted to be seen. But day after day in his practice, Sigmund Freud saw the other side of Vienna: people who were deeply unhappy — and who did not know why. Harold P.

Narrator: For Sigmund — as for everyone at that time — religion, education and family were woven together. Freud: I was still a young boy when my father started to teach me to read using the ...

Freud turns to humanity's archaic past to explain the longing for an "exalted father." Narrator: Freud called religion an illusion. For over 30 years, he developed this idea in his enormous body ...

As Freud struggled to learn the most secret things about himself, his childhood was coming back in a rush of discovery, disconnected memories and dreams, he recalled a nightmare about his mother ...

Freud's views of women were rooted in a culture in which there were enormous prejudices about the capacities of women. Their sexuality baffled him. Freud would later say that women were largely "a ...