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Sigmund Freud

1856 - 1939

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Sigmund Freud ( FROYD; Austrian German: [ˈziːgmʊnd ˈfrɔʏd]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it. Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sigmund Freud is the most popular psychologist, the most popular biography from Czechia and the most popular Czech Psychologist.

Sigmund Freud is most famous for his psychoanalytic theory. His theory focuses on the idea that there are three different components of the mind: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the instinctual part of the mind, the ego is the rational part of the mind, and the superego is the moral part of the mind.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Sigmund Freud ranks 1 out of 235After him are Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, Erich Fromm, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Wilhelm Wundt, Lev Vygotsky, Jacques Lacan, Viktor Frankl, Erik Erikson, and John Dewey.

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Among people born in 1856, Sigmund Freud ranks 2Before him is Nikola Tesla. After him are J. J. Thomson, George Bernard Shaw, Philippe Pétain, Woodrow Wilson, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Louis Sullivan, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, and Emil Kraepelin. Among people deceased in 1939, Sigmund Freud ranks 1After him are Pope Pius XI, Alphonse Mucha, Howard Carter, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Roth, W. B. Yeats, Eugen Bleuler, S. P. L. Sørensen, Ghazi of Iraq, Harvey Cushing, and Philipp Scheidemann.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Sigmund Freud ranks 1 out of 1,200After him are Franz Kafka (1883), Gustav Mahler (1860), Ivana Trump (1949), Gregor Mendel (1822), Antonín Dvořák (1841), Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Milan Kundera (1929), and Oskar Schindler (1908).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among psychologists born in Czechia, Sigmund Freud ranks 1After him are Max Wertheimer (1880), and Stanislav Grof (1931).