Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was born in Freiberg, Moravia (now Příbor, Czech Republic), and raised in Vienna, where he lived and worked for nearly eight decades. He trained as a neurologist at the University of Vienna, studied under Jean-Martin Charcot in Paris, and gradually developed the theory and practice of psychoanalysis—a method of treating mental illness through free association, dream analysis, and the exploration of the unconscious. His consulting room at Berggasse 19 became the birthplace of a revolution in human self-understanding. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Interpretation of Dreams.