Sigmund Freud - the Father of Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian born during the Habsburg Monarchy, was one of the trailblazers of modern-day psychology. The American historian William Johnston sees Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, among those personalities "that once made Austria a shining example of modernism in a world that had lost orientation".

• Sigmund Freud's biography
• The epochal significance of Sigmund Freud's work
• Freud's followers and the impact of his theories

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