Sigmund_Freud__A_Controversial_And_Influential_Man

Sigmund Freud: A Controversial And Influential Man Sigmund Freud is arguably one of the most influential psychologists on the field of psychology that has ever lived. The methods he developed are still frequently used today, and his theories are still widely taught and accepted. Freud’s Early Life and Education Sigmund Freud was born in Frieberg, Morovia on May 6, 1856. When he was four or five years old, he and his family moved to Vienna, Austria, where he would live and work until the last year of his life. As a young child, he always did well in school; he was even allowed to enroll in high school a year earlier than his classmates. Freud’s parents weren’t typical parents of the era, either. They encouraged their son to be creative and to pursue his interests. After he graduated from high school, Freud had few viable career options. His choices were basically limited to business, law, or medicine. Although he didn’t feel especially called to medicine, he chose to pursue it (Jones, 1953). He was accepted to and enrolled in medical school at the University of Vienna in 1873. It was here that Freud became involved in physiological research under the direction of Ernst Brucke. Brucke introduced Freud to the freud, stage, freud’s, believed, theory, must, theories, mind, boeree, 1997, unconscious, about, one, defense, work, patient, time, person, object, life, event, energy, conflict, way, stages, repression, psychological, psychoanalysis, pleasure, part, however, feel, father, during, disorders, after