Sigmund Freud: Father of Psychoanalysis
             Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)was a practicing physician and graduate of Vienna Medical School. After becoming well trained in medicine, he became interested in mental disorders. Freud has a wide variety of theories and in the 21st century there is much controversy over whether the theories are credible or not. Although his theories are controversial, his work is significant throughout the world and he has become the father of psychoanalysis.
             Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Czechoslovakia, but soon moved to Vienna where he lived for over half his life. In 1938, when Nazis assumed power, Freud took flight to England where he spent the remainder of his life. Freud believed his success and independence was due to his Jewish heritage. He attributed his independent thinking to his experience at schoo ,saying, "when he first encountered anti-Semitism at the University of Vienna, his lack of acceptance by the community drove him into opposition and fostered his independence of judgement" (Storr 1). When he abondoned Vienna he was already in his eighties and had spent a lifetime defying prejudice and illusion--ethnic, religious, sexual, and idealogical--and refused to retreat from the Nazis until they threatened his children.
             While in Vienna he attended the University of Vienna in the 1870's and practiced medicine reluctantly. In 1886, he fell in love and married Martha Bernays. Their family life was good throughout the fifty-three year marriage. After his death, his wife wrote to a friend saying:
             And yet how terribly difficult it is to have to do without him. To continue to live without so much kindness and wisdom beside one! It is small comfort form me to know that in the fifty-three years of our married life no tone angry word fell between us and that I always sought as much as possible to remove from his path the misery of everyday life. (Storr 3)
             From1890s on, he dedicated...