Sigmund Freud is known best for the founding father of psychoanalysis. He was born on May 6, 1856 in a town in Moravia. He was born to middle-class Jewish parents. His mother's name was Amalia, she was 20 years younger than his father Jacob. His father had a previous wife before he married his mother. He had 2 older half-brothers from his father's first marriage and seven younger siblings. Freud also had a nanny who he thought of as his second mother. His unusual family situation, especially the complex relationship with his father and nanny, was believed to have helped shape Freud's way of thinking. He was inexperienced with women. But he met Martha who he felt in love with. His engagement lasted 4 years, and in those four years they only saw each other 6 times. And finally married her at the age of 30 and had 6 children.
His career began at the age of 17 in the University of Vienna to study medicine. Freud believed in evolution and natural science. Time went by and Freud became a respected physician. In 1884 he began researching a new drug cocaine, it could be used as anesthesia in eye surgery. On April 5, 1986 he opened his own medical office in Vienna. He became interested in the treatment of an emotional disorder known as hysteria. When he was in Vienna he met a physician Josef Breuer. Breuer had a patient known as Anna O, suffering from hysteria, which apparently paralyzed her. During her treatment, Freud and Breuer discovered the recalling traumatic experiences with the help of hypnosis would help relieving her symptoms. After his studies and theories, doors opened for Freud's career. His theory about sexuality has made him one of the most controversial scientist of this century. Even though, today the controversy over Freud's theories remains. Those theories, however, have forever changed the views of psychopathology, day-to-day life, and the world.
But unfortunately his addiction to smoking killed him.
