AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Read a brief summary of this topic. Sigmund Freud, (born May 6, 1856, Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now Příbor, Czech Republic]-died September 23, 1939, London, England), Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. (Read Sigmund Freud’s 1926 Britannica essay on psychoanalysis.)

Detailed explanation-2: -Life. Freud was born in Frieberg, Moravia in 1856, but when he was four years old his family moved to Vienna where he was to live and work until the last years of his life.

Detailed explanation-3: -Throughout his life Freud feared old age and infirmity. He was also sceptical about treating older patients, arguing that above the age of fifty “the elasticity of the mental processes, on which the treatment depends, is as a rule lacking” (1905).