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Sigmund Freud
(May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939)

Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior.
He became interested in hypnotism and how it could be used to help the mentally ill.
He later abandoned hypnotism in favor of free association and dream analysis in developing what is now known as "the talking cure."
These became the core elements of psychoanalysis. Freud was especially interested in what was then called hysteria, and is now called conversion syndrome.

Freud's theories, and his treatment of patients, were controversial in 19th century Vienna, and remain hotly debated today.
Freud's ideas are often discussed and analyzed as works of literature, philosophy, and general culture in addition to continuing debate around them as scientific and medical treatises.
The name Freud is generally pronounced Froid in English and Froit in German.
He is commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis."

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