Trab.Inglês

State College Prof. Paulo Machado Mozart

Samuel de Oliveira Soth # 23 9A

Prof: Ana Adelia

English assignment

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was the Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist. It is the father of psychoanalysis. He used the term psychoanalysis for the first time in 1896.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was born in Freiberg, Moravia, when it belonged to the Austrian Empire, on May 6, 1856. The son of Jacob Freud, small trader and Amalie Nathanson. Jewish family, was the eldest of seven children. At age four his family moved to Vienna, where Jews had better social acceptance and better economic prospects.

From an early age he proved to be a brilliant student. At 17, he entered the University of Vienna in the course of Medicine. During the college years, he worked in neurophysiology laboratory until graduating in 1881. In 1882, he met Martha Bemays. They get engaged and in 1886, when Freud already had private practice, performing the marriage. They had six children. Ana, the youngest, was a secretary, nurse and father disciple.

Freud worked in Paris for six months, with the French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. He observed the treatment of hysteria with the use of hypnosis, then awakening his interest in the study of mental disorders. He became a specialist in nervous diseases. Then founded his psychoanalytic theories of mind.

In "Studies on Hysteria" (1893), describes the symptoms of nervous disease and emotional energy manifestations non-discharged associated with forgotten psychic traumas. Replacing hypnosis by the analysis of dreams and the association of ideas to reveal the unconscious mental processes at the root of the disorder. In affirming the influence of the unconscious on human actions and the connection of sexual impulses with the neuroses, the opposition wins the scientific community.

To better study their patients, started a self-analysis process. He worked with the interpretation of his own dreams. In 1896, first used the term psychoanalysis. Freud surrounded himself with a group of followers, among them Alfred Adler and Carl Jung.

In 1903, he founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. The first of psychoanalysis sign of acceptance in academia comes in 1909, when invited to give lectures in the USA. After World War I (1914-1918), using his theories to interpret culture, mythology, religion, art, and history.

In 1923, sick, he spent the first surgery to remove a tumor on the palate. Began to have difficulty speaking, I felt pain and discomfort. In 1938, when the Nazis took Viana, Freud, of Jewish origin, he was forced to take refuge in London, where he spent the last days of his life.

Sigismund Schlomo Freud died in London, England, on September 23, 1939.