the biography of Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian physician, founder of psychoanalysis.
At the end of medical school, Sigmund Freud is moving towards neurology, a discipline specialized in diseases called "nerve" (that is to say related to the nervous system). After following in France in 1885 during the Professor Jean Martin Charcot, where he discovered including the use of hypnosis, Freud decided to explore new methods to treat such diseases.
From his first book, published in 1895, Freud expresses the idea that the unrest "neurotic" (unexplained fears, obsessions, phobias, etc.) are related to repressed memories (forgotten) as early as the early childhood to forbidden desires. It attaches great importance to all the thoughts that a person without realizing it: this is what he calls the unconscious.
Throughout his career, Freud develops this theory and sets up a new psychoanalytic therapeutic technique called, trying to cure neuroses. Thanks to the phenomena related to the unconscious, it also gives an explanation of the formation of dreams (especially in his book The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900) or on behaviors related to sexuality.

Despite the distrust of the medical profession, its method convinces more and more people. In 1910, he founded the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), which brings together members in Europe and the United States. Forced to flee Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II, Freud fled to London, where he died in 1939. His therapeutic methods are now applied worldwide.