Sigmund freud biography channel

One in this series of documentaries which examines the professional and personal lives of a wide range of individuals, both those in the public eye and those of historic note.

This documentary, hosted by Jack Perkins, utilizes rare still photographs; archival footage; and interviews with family, friends, collaborators, and historians to examine the life and career of psychotherapy pioneer Sigmund Freud.

After a brief introduction by Perkins, Freud's alternately traumatic and cheerful childhood is discussed by psychiatrist/historian Joe Aguayo and Harold P. Blum, the director of the Sigmund Freud archives.

Sigmund freud biography channel

The most interesting aspect of Freud's youth, according to Blum, is the significant fact that Freud kept a journal of his dreams even as a young boy. Aguayo discusses Freud's intense ambition, which took on a decidedly combative edge in the face of Vienna's anti-Semitism.

Judith M. Hughes, author of "From Freud's Consulting Room," discusses the irony in the sexually repressed Freud