Doctor Spock based much of his advice on the research and findings of the famous Austrian psychoanalyst,Sigmund Freud.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Freud was eighty-three years old when he died of cancer in London on September twenty-third, nineteen thirty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

And the third is that we are formed more than we think in the first five years, but not necessarily the way Freud thought.

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Using this method,Freud reasoned, the pain and emotional pressure of the past would be greatly weakened.

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says three of Freud's major ideas are still part of modern thinking about the mind.

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Freud believed that all the painful memories of childhood lay buried in the unconscious self.

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The work and theories of Sigmund Freud continue to influence many areas of modern culture.

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Before Sigmund Freud, no modern scientist had looked so deeply into the human mind.

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Many of Freud's theories about how the mind works also had strong sexual connections.

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Freud was one of the first scientists to make serious research of the mind.

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Anna Freud, the youngest of his six children, became a noted psychoanalyst herself.

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Today,we explore Freud's influence on the treatment of mental disorders through psychotherapy.

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Freud would come to be called the father of psychoanalysis.

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Freud worked hard, although what he did might sound easy.

VOA: special.2010.04.13