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Sigmund Freud﻿ ﻿"Dreams are often most profound when the seem the most crazy"



1856-1939  Neurologist

__ Psychoanalytic Perspective __ Sigmund Freud believed that uncounsious forces determines human behavior. He thinks that uncounsious processes affects your behavior more than conscious processes. His theory is called psychodynamic thinking which he assumes that mostly uncounscious and conflicting impulses, urges, and wishes exist in one's mind.

__ Education __ Freud attended the University of Vienna from 1873 to 1881. Here he studied neuropsychological reasearch under the direction of psychology professor Ernst Brucke. He then got qualified as a doctor of medicine. In 1893 Frued then started studying hysteria, an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear; often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc, with Josef Breuer. Sigmund invented a special cell- staining technique and then later on Brucke helped him get a grant to study. His first study was with psychiatrist Charcot in Paris and then with rival Bernhelm in Nancy. Both of these investigations were for hypnosis to cure hysteria. Freud later went back to Vienna and set up a practice in neuropsychiatry with the help from Joseph Breuer.

__ Major Accomplishments __ 1.) In 1895 him and Breuer published one of the biggest texts in the history of psychoanalysis called the Studies of Hysteria 2.) Freud then published his own work in 1900, The Interpretation of Dreams 3) In 1904 Freud published The Psychopathology of Everyday Life 4.) In 1909 the president of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusettes, the psychologist G. Stanley Hall, invited Sigmund Freud to speak and awarded him with an honorary doctrate.

__ Other Contributions __ 1.) Sigmund Freud wanted to find another treatment besides hypnosis for hysteria after he returned to VIenna 2.) This led up to his self analysis based on his own dreams. He believed that dreams are made up of 2 parts. One part is manifest which is what a person remembers about their dream when they wake up. The other part is the latent which is the true meaning of the dream but it is disquised by the manifest. This is why nobody knows the true meanings of their dreams. media type="custom" key="6879473" width="100" height="100"

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