Freud's developing theories on sexual desire cause controversy among his peers. Narrator: In the first decade of the 20th century, Viennese society was all gaiety and glitter. This is how they ...

Despite his upbringing, sudden poverty and early scientific encounters lead Sigmund away from religion. Narrator: The man who would become an atheist was raised in a world steeped in religious belief.

Freudian psychology is based on the work of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). He is considered the father of psychoanalysis and is largely credited with establishing the field of ...

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6th, 1856 in a rented room over a blacksmith's shop in Freiberg in Moravia, a small town in what is now a part of the Czech Republic, fifty miles north of Vienna.

Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856. His father was a small time merchant, and his father's second wife was Freud's mother. Freud had two half-brothers some 20 years ...