Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud c. 1921[1]
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an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies in the psyche through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst
Born
Sigismund Schlomo Freud 6 May 1856 Freiberg in Mähren, Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Příbor, Czech Republic)
Died
23 September 1939 (aged 83) Hampstead, London, England
Known for
Psychoanalysis, including the theories of id, ego and super-ego, oedipus complex, repression, defense mechanism
Fields
Neurology, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis
Alma mater
University of Vienna ( MD, 1881)
Awards
Goethe Prize (1930) Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Institutions
University of Vienna
Spouse(s)
Martha Bernays ( m. 1886)
Academic advisors
Franz Brentano Ernst Brücke Carl Claus
adultbasic
Austria
Children
Mathilde, Jean-Martin, Oliver, Ernst, Sophie, and Anna
era
1800+
Influenced
List of psychoanalysts List of psychoanalytical theorists
Influences
Brentano Breuer Charcot Darwin Fechner Fliess von Hartmann Herbart Nietzsche Plato Schopenhauer Shakespeare
Parents
Jacob Freud (father) Amalia née Nathanson (mother)