Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud was a neurologist and psychoanalysist from Austria. He was born in the Moravian town Freiberg (today Příbor). He was a graduated doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. He and his wife Martha Bernays had six children and before they had left Vienna, after Nazi persecution, they lived in the historical district of Vienna. He was from a Jewish family, also his wife, was a granddaughter of Isaac Bernays, a chief rabbi in Hamburg. He died in exile in the United Kingdom.

Freud And Dreams

He wrote The Interpretation of Dreams where he described his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation. He believed that the function of dreams is to preserve sleep by representing fulfilled wishes that would get the dreamer awake. By Freud, dreams are instigated as the result of the daily occurrences and thoughts of everyday life. He regarded dreams as a road/way to the unconscious. The conclusion is based on understanding to dream interpretation. He supposed dreams to be important for using dream interpretation in psychotherapy; Freud believed that the therapist's role contributes a lot to dream work's efficacy.

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