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  • Essay / A Brief Biography of Sigmund Freud - 667

    Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia. His father, Jacob Freud, who was a skilled wool merchant, married Amalia Freud, Sigmund's mother. Amalia was twenty years younger when she and Jacob married. Sigmund was the first child of eight children, but Jacob, his father, had two children by his first marriage. Sigmund's father was born into a Jewish family and left home to get away from normal Jewish tradition. When Sigmund was four years old, they left Freiberg for Vienna where he lived most of the rest of his life. In 1865, when Sigmund was only nine years old, he entered high school. He particularly excelled and graduated with honors. While in high school, he learned and became proficient in German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. Freud entered the University of Vienna at seventeen. His initial plan was to study law, but he joined the medical faculty in Vienna. He received a doctorate in medicine in Vienna in 1881. In 1882 he began his medical career at the Vienna General Hospital. In 1891, Freud published his first book On Aphasias: A Critical Study. Freud worked for three years at the hospital and, thanks to the publication of his first book, he was appointed professor of neuropathology. He resigned from the hospital in 1886 and also married his wife Minna Bernays. In 1887, they had their first child Mathlide, and subsequently had five more children. Jean-Martin was born in 1889, Oliver in 1891, Ernst in 1892, Sophie in 1893 and Anna in 1895. At age 24, Freud started smoking and his colleagues warned him of the effects but he ignored them. Due to World War II, Freud and his family had to leave Vienna because it was a dangerous place for Jews. ...... middle of paper ......k it works for many. I have read over and over again in our books that therapists talk to their patients about their past and see if there is a connection between their current problems and resolve it. Freud was the first to understand the importance of childhood in trying to identify the problem. Freud also takes into account nature and nurture with the id, ego and superego. A limitation might be to extract it from the person. They might hold on to what's wrong with them and you might never hear it. How are you going to treat it if they don't talk? We can't give them medicine, medicine doesn't solve everything. It takes time with psychodynamic theory to actually identify the problem. It would take weeks, months, even years to find out what's wrong and what to do if someone doesn't have much time. What if they wanted to find out what's wrong with the, now?