Sigmund Freud — The Father of Modern Psychoanalysis

How a nervous Austrian man became the foundation of an entire field.

Sigmund Freud is the person we get the “therapist couch” image Photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash.

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, to a Jewish merchant family in Freiberg, a small town in the Austrian empire in what is now the Czech Republic.

He was apparently a playful, curious, happy child, though his family was unusually…