his life to the development of psychoanalysis. One of his first works was co-written with Josef Breuer, the Studies on Hysteria.
             Freud's personality was one of obsessive traits. It is said that "most people of outstanding intellectual acheivement exhibit traits of personality which psychiatrist label obsessional; that is, they are meticulous, scrupulous, accurate, reliable, honest, and much concerned with cleanliness, control and order" (Storr 3). He himself acknowledged that he was obsessive, once writing to a friend that he needed a` dominating passion'. Freud, like his typical personality, was very neat in appearance, he had a barber attend to him daily. In his early years, while he was poor, he never owned more than three suits, three pairs of shoes, and three sets of underclothes. Later in life, when he was successful, he could not tolerate owing money to anyone; and although he charged a high price for his patients, he was very generous with the less fortunate. Freud, also to his personality, was very superstitous about numbers, once writing to a friend that he would die around the age of 61 or 62. One of his major traits of obsessive-compulsive personality was his habit/addiction to smoking. Although he had health complications in his later years, he continued to smoke; he could not quit. At the age of 67, he developed cancer, probably due to his smoking. He refused any painkillers early on because he thought it would interfere with
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