Freud

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Aaron Sacks

5/22/11

Period 6

Tournament of Champs: Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud's contributions to the field of psychology and to the discoveries of the human mind were extensive. He had the ability to see how people think and was able to look deep in to people's feelings and emotions. A lot of the different theories that Freud created a long time ago are still being used and studied by people who work in psychology, such as therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists. Freud's psychological discoveries have really aided our society today because they have helped to diagnose people with problems, while also providing those problems with solutions. Without Freud and his in-depth findings many people would be in pain. The things that Freud found have taught many people about human interaction, and although these things were discovered so long ago, they are still being used today and they are still the basis of psychology.

Freud was born Sigismund Schlomo Freud on May 6, 1856 in Freiburg, Moravia, a small town in the Austrian Empire. Freud's father, Jacob, was a wool merchant who already had two children from a previous marriage when Freud was born. At