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35 Things Most People Don’t Know About Sigmund Freud

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34. He Pioneered Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Sigmund Freud in 1905. Ludwig Grillich – Christian Lunzer (Hrsg.): Wien um 1900 – Jahrhundertwende, ALBUM Verlag für Photografie, Wien 1999/ Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain.

Freud lived from 1856 to 1939, a time when psychology was only beginning to be developed as a science. Many people who had what we would now recognize as mental illnesses or personality disorders would simply be institutionalized for their entire lives. Freud helped change that by developing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy to treat those conditions.

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