By Darian Leader — 2009
Freud believed that behaviour is driven by fears and desires locked in the 'unconscious'- a part of ourselves he attempted to reach through psychoanalysis. Here, Darian Leader explains Freud's theory and the ideas that have followed.
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Psychology's most famous figure is also one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund Freud's theories and work helped shape our views of childhood, personality, memory, sexuality, and therapy.
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who is perhaps most known as the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud's developed a set of therapeutic techniques centered on talk therapy that involved the use of strategies such as transference, free association, and dream interpretation.
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