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The Biography of Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, to a Jewish family in Freiberg, Moravia. Freud's father was Jakob Freud and his mother was Amalia Nathansohn. Freud had two older brothers and seven other siblings. "When Freud was four, his family moved to Vienna, Austria, where Freud spent most of his life until 1983, when he was forced to flee to England because of the Nazi invasion"(WU,2003 par.2). At the age of 17 …

…of the prestigious British Royal Society of Medicine" (Wu, 2003, par.5). Freud was dealing with cancer in the jaw and cheeks. In London on September 23, 1939, Freud died by a lethal dose of morphine. "Freud's most important influence was to inspire modern psychiatry by his examination of mental illness" (Freud, 1856-1939, par.7). "Today, the controversy over Freud's theories remains. Those theories, however, have forever changed the Western views of psychopathology, day-to-day life, and the world" (Wu, 2003, par.6).