Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist, born on 6 May 1856.  He studied at the University of Vienna and was an influential thinker of the early twentieth century.  Sigmund Freud was the first to use the term psychoanalysis in 1896 and he eventually came to be known as the father of psychoanalysis.  He spent much of his career working on understanding human psychological development and the treatment of abnormal mental conditions.  He believed that mental illness, in many cases, did not have a physiological cause.  He is most famous for his approach to curing mental illness and various mental conditions through psychological analysis.  It was interesting to learn that Freud was an atheist who fought against religion, and yet, was of Jewish origin.  He thought that religion was an obstacle to human intelligence and its development.  .  It is often said that many fundamental aspects of psychology today can be traced to Freud’s original work.