Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
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Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856. His father
was a small time merchant, and Freud's mother was his second wife. Freud
had two half-brothers some 20 years older than himself. His family moved to
Vienna when he was four years old, and though he often claimed he hated the
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go into private practice with a specialty in neurology.
During his training he befriended Josef Breuer, another physician and
physiologist. They often discussed medical cases together and one of
Breuer's would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this
patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She
had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak
French and English, couldn't drink water even when thirsty, and so on.
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