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Evaluate Freud's psychodynamic theory.

The godfather of psychologyÂ….as he has often been termed. Perhaps he was in his time.

Sigmund Freud. Born in Freiberg, Morovia, to a poor family in the year 1856. His mother was 21 at the time of his birth, his father was 20 years her senior. Attitudes towards sex and women were very different at this time. Sex was very much taboo, women were treated as second class and children had no rights. Extreme double standards were normal, rich men would happily pay prostitutes for their services, while strictly withholding standards closer to home.

Freud lived most of his life in Vienna and was educated at Vienna university. He studied to be a physician, and had a particularly keen interest in neurology. In 1885 he moved to Paris where he spent time studying under Jean Charoct in a mental hospital. It was there that Freud became interested in hysteria.

Freud studied hysteria at length. He became involved with Josef Breuer. Dr Breuer......

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