Sigmund Freud Biography

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NAME: Sigmund Freud
OCCUPATION: Scholar, Psychiatrist
BIRTH DATE: May 06, 1856
DEATH DATE: September 23, 1939
EDUCATION: University of Vienna
PLACE OF BIRTH: Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire
PLACE OF DEATH: London, England
Originally: Sigismund Schlomo Freud

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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist best known for developing the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis.

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Charles Darwin's understanding of humankind as a progressive element of the animal kingdom certainly informed Freud's investigation of human behavior. Additionally, the formulation of a new principle by Helmholtz, stating that energy in any given physical system is always constant, informed Freud's scientific inquiries into the human mind. Freud's work has been both rapturously praised and hotly critiqued,

but no one has influenced the science of psychology as intensely as Sigmund Freud.

After a life of constant inquiry, he committed suicide after requesting a lethal dose of morphine from his doctor while exiled in England in 1939, following a battle with oral cancer.