Freud

Sigmund Freud was born in the Freiberg, Austria on May 6, 1856. In 1881 he received his medical degree and got engaged the following year. Freud quickly set up a private practice and began treating numerous psychological disorders. He considered himself primarily a scientist, rather than a doctor; he attempted to understand the passage of human knowledge and experience. Freud was greatly influenced by the work of his friend and Viennese colleague, Josef Breuer, who had discovered that when he encouraged a hysterical patient to talk openly about the earliest incidences of the symptoms, the symptoms sometimes gradually stopped. 

Freud’s concepts include the belief that when we explain our behavior to ourselves or others it is rare that we will give a true account out motivations. However, this does not necessarily mean we are deliberately lying. Although human beings are great liars of others, they are even more skillful at self-deception. Our explanations of our behavior are therefore concealing the real reasons. Freud was the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method for treating and also a theory which explains human behavior. Freud was also a huge supporter of free talk therapy. Freud's theory is good at explaining but not at predicting behavior, which is one of the goals of science. For this reason Freud's theory is unjustifiable, it can neither be proved true or refuted. For example, the unconscious mind is difficult to test and measure objectively. Overall, Freud's theory is highly unscientific.