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Who developed the theory of human mind and behavior? What we think and the actions we make are all for some kind of reason. Sigmund Freud was the one who actually thought about this and made theory's to explain his reasons. Sigmund Freud was a psychiatrist and worked other psychiatrists. He was the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Sigmund Freud was interested in hypnotism, but then moved on to dream analysis and developed "the talking cure", which became the main elements of psychoanalysis. Freud was mostly interested in hysteria, also known as conversion disorder. Sigmund Freud really changed the way people think about psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born on May 6, 1856 into a jewish family. He was the first born out of 3 brothers and 5 sisters. He was very smart from the beginning. He attended the University of Vienna at the age of 17 in 1873-1881. In Freud's 40's he "had numerous psychosomatic disorders as well as exaggerated fears of dying and other phobias"(Corey P.67)He leanred from his own disorders and not only others, so he knew more about what others were going through. This was when he was going through self analysis. During self analysis he explored his dreams, old memories, and about his personality development. He figured out that he felt hostile towards his father and "he also recalled his childhood sexual feelings for his mother, who was attractive, warm and protective"(Corey P.67) He had sexual feelings towards his mother when he was a child. He was also had more of a bond between him and his mother than between him and his father. This and other studies is what brought him to his theory of The Oedipus Complex. "Freud was a smoker of Churchill-style cigars for most of his life; even after having his jaw removed due to malignancy, he continued to smoke until his death in 1939. It is said that he would smoke an entire box of cigars daily."(Boeree P.1) Sigmund Freud was a very heavy smoker. He had his...