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Sigmund Freud (/ f r ɔɪ d / FROYD, [2] German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, [3] and the distinctive theory of ...
Jacob Kolloman Freud (1 April 1815 – 23 October 1896) [1] was the father of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.. Born in town of Tysmenytsia in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (now in Ukraine), [2] and from a Hasidic background though himself an enlightened Jew of the Haskalah, [3] he mainly earned his living as a wool merchant.
Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) is considered to be the founder of the psychodynamic approach to psychology, which looks to unconscious drives to explain human behavior. Freud believed that the mind is responsible for both conscious and unconscious decisions that it makes on the basis of psychological drives.
Edward Bernays was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. [7] His mother, Anna (1858–1955), was Sigmund Freud's sister, and his father Eli (1860–1921) was the brother of Freud's wife, Martha Bernays; their grandfather, Isaac Bernays (through their father Berman), was the chief rabbi of Hamburg and a relative of the poet Heinrich Heine.
Psychoanalysis[ i] is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques [ ii] that deal in part with the unconscious mind, [ iii] and which together form a method of treatment for mental disorders. The discipline was established in the early 1890s by Sigmund Freud, [ 1] whose work stemmed partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others.
Many cultures throughout history have speculated on the nature of the mind, heart, soul, spirit, brain, etc. For instance, in Ancient Egypt, the Edwin Smith Papyrus contains an early description of the brain, and some speculations on its functions (described in a medical/surgical context) and the descriptions could be related to Imhotep who was the first Egyptian physician who anatomized and ...
Psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalytic theory is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development relating to the practice of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology. First laid out by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century (particularly in his 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams ...
Psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, social psychology. Jacob Levy Moreno (born Iacob Levy; May 18, 1889 – May 14, 1974) was a Romanian-American psychiatrist, psychosociologist, and educator, the founder of psychodrama, and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy. During his lifetime, he was recognized as one of the leading social ...