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35 Things Most People Don’t Know About Sigmund Freud

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33. He Specialized in Nervous Disorders

A group photo in front of Clark University in 1909. Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, C. G. Jung; Back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi. Photo taken for Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts publication. Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain.

Freud studied medicine at the University of Vienna, though his interest turned to behavioral issues, something that had previously been relegated to philosophy and theology. He was fascinated by people who had uncontrollable impulses, often attributed to what we now understand to be PTSD or a mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

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