Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856. His father was a small time merchant, and his father's second wife was Freud's mother. Freud had two half-brothers some 20 years ...

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6th, 1856 in a rented room over a blacksmith's shop in Freiberg in Moravia, a small town in what is now a part of the Czech Republic, fifty miles north of Vienna.

Narrator: For Sigmund — as for everyone at that time — religion, education and family were woven together. Freud: I was still a young boy when my father started to teach me to read using the ...

This is how they wanted to be seen. But day after day in his practice, Sigmund Freud saw the other side of Vienna: people who were deeply unhappy — and who did not know why. Harold P.