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Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis
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dead
- born
- 1856
- died
- 1939
- age at death
- 83
- known for
- psychoanalyst, neurologist, essayist
1856 β 1939
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who sigmund freud is
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency it posits.
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