Describe and discuss how Sigmund Freud has contributed to Psychology
Sigmund Freud was and still is one of the most influential psychologists and is commonly referred to as 'the father of psychoanalysis' after developing a theory of the human mind and human behaviour as well as clinical techniques in attempting to help neurotics.
Born in Frieberg, Montavia in 1856. From the years of 1873-1881 he studied biology, later specialising in neurology at the University of Vienna.
Freud developed a theory of mental life called psychoanalysis, which emphasises the importance of the unconscious, sexual instinct and psychosexual development in childhood.
When Freud died of cancer in 1939 he left behind six children. His youngest daughter, Anna Freud, went on to study child and development psychology.
I will now describe how Freud's development of the unconsious influenced and contributed to psychology.
Freud first assumed that a large part of our mental life happens at an unconcious level in 1933. He suggested that declarations of free will are delusions; that we are not entirely aware of what we think and often act for reasons that have little to do with our conscious thoughts. Instead he proposed that awareness existed in layers and that there were thoughts occurring "below the surface." This assumption that we have an unconcious changed the way in which many people viewed themselves and also introduced different forms of therapies.
Sigmund Freud was and still is one of the most influential psychologists and is commonly referred to as 'the father of psychoanalysis' after developing a theory of the human mind and human behaviour as well as clinical techniques in attempting to help neurotics.
Born in Frieberg, Montavia in 1856. From the years of 1873-1881 he studied biology, later specialising in neurology at the University of Vienna.
Freud developed a theory of mental life called psychoanalysis, which emphasises the importance of the unconscious, sexual instinct and psychosexual development in childhood.
When Freud died of cancer in 1939 he left behind six children. His youngest daughter, Anna Freud, went on to study child and development psychology.
I will now describe how Freud's development of the unconsious influenced and contributed to psychology.
Freud first assumed that a large part of our mental life happens at an unconcious level in 1933. He suggested that declarations of free will are delusions; that we are not entirely aware of what we think and often act for reasons that have little to do with our conscious thoughts. Instead he proposed that awareness existed in layers and that there were thoughts occurring "below the surface." This assumption that we have an unconcious changed the way in which many people viewed themselves and also introduced different forms of therapies.
