Sigmund Freud is considered one of the most influential figures in psychology of all time. He is also considered one of the most controversial people of the 20th century due to his views on personality, sexuality, childhood, and therapy. He is best known for his views on sexuality and how they directly relate to psychological processes. Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Freidberg, Morvavia (now the Czech Republic). His father was a merchant and his mother; who was his father's second wife. He had two half-siblings who were about twenty years older than him. He attended the University of Vienna and received a medical degree in 1881 (www.nndb.com). While in medicine, he became friends with Josef Breuer during his training. Josef Breuer was both a doctor and a physiologist (www.nndb.com) and they often compared their thoughts on cases. One in particular that had a lasting effect on Freud involved a patient named Anna O and she suffered from hysteria (now called conversion disorder) where she suffered temporary paralysis, anesthesia and nervous coughing ( www.psychology.about.com). Breuer discovered that if he could hypnotize her, then she would be able to speak about things that she could not say in her conscious state. Eventually his symptoms were relieved and it became known as the “talking cure” (www.pbs.org). He later went to Paris to study under Jean Martin-Charcot, a well-known neurologist in Europe at the time (www.pbs.org). She was studying hysteria and hypnosis and this pushed her to get into psychopathology. Sigmund Freud is the originator of psychoanalysis which was Freud's way of thinking that people could be healed by making their unconscious thoughts conscious (www.simplypsychol..... .middle of paper ......y reverse others The ego that develops from the id, is used to satisfy the id is a path that is safe and socially acceptable The ego operates in both the conscious and unconscious mind develops during. early childhood and is responsible for ensuring compliance with moral standards The superego can cause a person to feel a certain level of guilt if the rules are not followed (www.simplypschology.org is considered to be. one of the greatest thinkers in psychology of this time You can see it through this article He is the originator of the theory of psychoanalysis and proposed structural models of the mind and its functioning. alone is important for a psychologist because it helps him better. help his patient. In my opinion, psychoanalysis was a great thing that happened to the psychologist because it was the start of something huge..