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Freud Freud was born in Freiberg on May 6 1856 and educated at the University of Vienna When he was three years old his family fleeing from the anti-Semitic riots then raging in Freiberg moved to Leipzig Shortly thereafter the family settled in Vienna where Freud remained for most of his life Although Freuds ambition from childhood had been a career in law he decided to become a medical student shortly before he entered the University of Vienna in 1873 Inspired by the scientific investigations of the German poet Goethe Freud was driven by an intense desire to study natural science and to solve some of the challenging problems confronting contemporary scientists In his third year at the university Freud began research work on the central nervous system in the physiological laboratory under the direction of the German physician Ernst Wilhelm von Brcke Neurological research was so engrossing that Freud neglected the prescribed courses and as a result remained in medical school three years longer than was required normally to qualify as a physician In 1881 after completing a year of compulsory military service he received his medical degree Unwilling to give up his experimental work however he remained at the university as a demonstrator in the physiological laboratory In 1883 at Brckes urging he reluctantly abandoned theoretical research to gain practical experience Freud spent three years at the General Hospital of Vienna devoting himself successively to psychiatry dermatology and nervous diseases In 1885 following his appointment as a lecturer in neuropathology at the University of Vienna he left his post at the hospital Later the same year he was awarded a government grant enabling him to spend 19 weeks in Paris as a student of the French neurologist Jean Charcot Charcot who was the director of the clinic at the mental hospital the Salptrire was then treating nervous disorders by the use of hypnotic suggestion
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