Sigmund Freud
I have chosen to write my I-search paper about Sigmund Freud, known today as the father of psychoanalysis. He has impacted our society a great deal and this is obvious when you simply open up a psychology textbook. This semester I am taking a psychology course and we talk about him a lot. I have learned, not only through my psychology course, but also through my dad who majored in psychology in college, that Freud has influenced how modern day psychologists treat their patients. Some people follow what Freud has said and use his theories and ideas to treat their patients. This is what made me wonder about Sigmund Freud. Who was this person and how has he impacted my decade so much? Has he really contributed as much as people say he has and if so, what exactly did he do? Do his theories even work? With these questions in mind I set out to find the answers and with some research learn about who is known to be the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.
My search process for this information included searching the Internet for Web sites I felt were not only appropriate to the topic, but also academic or other viable Web sites. It is often hard to make sure the information on Web sites is accurate and informative, and so, I made sure the Web sites I chose for my site had some kind of credence to them, such as a school Web site, or site were written by an expert in the topic. I also searched the library for books and journals, and used the online library at Questia.com to search for books, journals, and magazine articles about Freud. I tried to look for a wide variety of references on Freud, on both his life and work, so I would have a greater understanding of the man and what he did. I wanted to know more about why he was so important, but I also wanted to know about his background, his life, and his family, to give a more complete picture of the man, and what drove him to keep working on his philosophies and his treatments. There is a lot of information on Freud in many different areas, and I found the books, journals, and Web sites to be a bit overwhelming, but very helpful in my goal to learn more about the man and his work. In addition, Freud also was a prolific writer, and I wanted to include some of his own writings in my search, which I did.
I learned quite a bit about Freud's life, his work, and his purpose. First, Freud was born in 1856, and lived until 1939. He lived almost all of his life in Vienna, Austria, and that was where he had his practice. He married his wife in 1886, and had six children. His youngest daughter, Anna, went on to be a prominent psychologist in her own right. He was often very poor throughout his life, because often his treatments were controversial at the time, and he had trouble keeping patients. One of the authors I read said, "After his engagement this matter of being thwarted by poverty became really serious. He had to announce that he was a poor man, without a penny, with no prospects, since even a country practitioner needed a modicum of capital to start a practice" (Jones Vol. I, 154). This poverty followed him through his life, and often it made it difficult for him to keep his family comfortable. I was interested to discover that he was actually trained as a medical doctor, and worked as a physician for a time. I thought it was interesting that he took the time to answer people's letters to him, even when he needed to earn real money for his family, and the 1927 letter that was never published before showed that he deeply cared about people and their mental health (Benjamin and Dixon 461).
Freud impacted my decade, and many decades before mine, because his work was so different and new. He did not follow the prescribed methods of psychiatry and psychology, and he came up with many new theories of how the mind worked, including his concepts in the Id and the Superego. I read that "Freud formulated and developed the idea that many neuroses (phobias, hysterical paralyses and pains, some forms of paranoia, etc.) had their origins in deeply traumatic experiences which had occurred in the past life of the patient but which were now forgotten, hidden from consciousness"...
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