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Dictionary definition: Freud
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- A New Dictionary of Eponyms
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Copyright© A New Dictionary of Eponyms 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997. (Hide copyright information)
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Freud, Freudian, Freudian slip
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was born at Freiberg, in Moravia. He studied medicine in Vienna and Paris and then, in 1884, studied under Josepf Breuer, a Viennese physician who introduced him to the cathartic method of treating hysteria, which focused on allowing patients to confront the root element of their abiding fears. It became the essential starting point of psychoanalysis. The two men explored matters affecting psychotherapy, but then Freud developed the importance of “free association” as a method of treatment. His books became the gospel of psychotherapy. Freud, who was Jewish, was condemned by the Nazis. He fled in 1938 to ...
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Article: Sigmund Freud Institute
International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis;
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...SIGMUND FREUD INSTITUTE Located in Frankfurt, Germany, the Sigmund Freud Institute is a state-supported research ... October 14, 1964, it was rechristened the Sigmund Freud Institute. Psychoanalysis originated ...
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