Sigmund Scholmo Freud was born on 6 May 1865 in Freiburg, Moravia. Freud was originally born Jewish but turned to atheism, later his Jewish past would come back to “haunt” him. An interesting (but disturbing) fact is that Freud's mother, who was also his father's second wife, was only a few years older than his two half-brothers. Many people believe that this was why Freud believed that psychological problems were related to sexual problems in childhood, since he had a psychological problem with this (Isbister, pg 9). As a child, Freud was the favorite among his ten brothers and sisters and the most intelligent. He was the only child among his siblings to receive the best education money could afford. As a child he would have liked to study law but chose medicine because (quote from his autobiography) “at the time, Darwin's theories, which aroused interest at the time, strongly attracted me, because they offered hopes of an extraordinary future advancing our understanding of the world; and Goethe's beautiful essay on nature read aloud in a lecture before leaving for the school that decided me to become a medical student. (Strachey, p.8). At the age of seventeen Freud went to the University of Vienna and then graduated in 1885 with a doctorate in medicine, but this was difficult to do due to all the negativity towards the Jewish people. During and after his university career he always believed that evolution and psychology determined people's behavior. During college, Freud interned at Theodor Meynert's psychiatric clinic and studied with Ernst Brucke, a professor of psychology. He carried out cocaine research at Theordor Meynert's psychiatric clinic. Halfway through the research he believed that cocaine could...... middle of paper....... According to some this put an end to psychoanalysis, but not so because even today psychologists still follow Freud's theories by refuting or proving them . On September 23, 1939, Sigmund Freud died of a doctor's assistant's morphine overdose because he could no longer bear the pain of his battle with jaw and throat cancer. .7). Sigmund Freud changed the way we think, understand and look at psychological issues today. Sure, some of his theories have been proven false or have been “updated” over the years, but he is still known as the father of psychoanalysis. Even though Freud thought that everyone's problems could be traced back to childhood or sexual issues, he created and did so many good things in the psychological and neurological fields.