[Curiosities] The curious life of Sigmund Freud 168 years after his birth

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Sigmund Freud was born 168 years ago in the city of Príbor, at that time belonging to the Austrian Empire, today the Czech Republic, becoming the father of psychoanalysis.

Freud was born on May 6, 1856. At an early age his parents, of Jewish origin, moved to Vienna and from a young age he showed great interest in knowing how the human mind worked.

Until the beginning of the 19th century, mental problems were treated only by medical specialists. It was precisely Freud who set out to delve into the depths of the mind and did so in a very particular way: through words.

 

 

He studied Medicine, had aspirations of becoming a scientist and dedicating himself to Neurophysiology. His early research focused on nerve cells and was decisive for his future work.

His knowledge of Neurology led him to work in the prestigious psychiatric clinic of Dr. Theodor Meynert, where he specialized in diseases of the nervous system and he discovered that listening to his patients led him to words and these, in turn, constituted the keys to access to the unconscious. Thus psychoanalysis was born and Freud is recognized as the father of this specialty.

However, the medical community at that time was reluctant to accept that problems could be cured only by talking. The results of psychoanalysis were so overwhelming that they had no alternative but to accept it as part of Medicine.

Without intending to, Freud promoted one of the most solid and controversial revolutions of the 20th century until the day of his death in London, on September 23, 1939.

 

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