Question 2 of 21

Freud was born in __________.

... Freud was born in 1865, in Freiberg, Moravia, which today is Pribor, Czech Republic. The town square is named after him.

Question 3 of 21

Growing up, Freud ________.

... From a young age, Freud displayed academic brilliance and was given preferential treatment over his seven siblings. For example, he was allowed to have an oil lamp to study by, while his brothers and sisters had to use candles. And, to maintain a quiet atmosphere for young Freud's concentration, his siblings were forbidden from playing music.

Question 4 of 21

During his university days, Freud become convinced that _______ was a miracle drug.

... Freud was a proponent of cocaine, which was legally available in his day. He used it to treat his own depression and digestive problems, offered it to friends and family and published a paper supporting its use. He was later blamed for helping to popularize the drug.

Question 5 of 21

Freud's university degree was in _________.

... In 1881, Freud was awarded his M.D. from the University of Vienna. Although he wanted to go into research and teaching, he felt he was too poor to follow that path, so he opened a practice as a clinical neurologist.

Question 6 of 21

In regards to his personal life, Freud ________.

... Freud admitted to his fiance that he had a "tyrannical streak." He was exceptionally jealous and wanted her to "renounce" her family and devote herself to him.

Question 7 of 21

Which case study became critical to the development of psychoanalysis and strongly influenced Freud's practice?

... Anna O. was the pseudonym of a patient of Freud's mentor, Josef Breuer. Through hypnosis, Breuer was able to get his patient to talk through her experiences, reducing her many hysterical symptoms through emotional release (catharsis).

Question 8 of 21

After using hypnosis in his practice, Freud lost interest in the technique and focused on the "talking cure," from which he developed the technique of _______.

... Freud used free association with his patients, encouraging them to talk about whatever came to mind, no matter how bizarre or unconnected it might at first appear to be. He observed that many patients discussed their childhood, especially in relation to sex.

Question 9 of 21

Josef Breuer and Freud published Studies on Hysteria in 1895. It almost went unpublished because the two men disagreed on the __________.

... Freud became convinced that sex was the basis of all psychological problems. Bruer acknowledged its importance but did not see sex as the only source of neuroses; he wanted to see more research in support of Freud's theory. But Freud was already convinced. This eventually led to an insurmountable rift between the two.

Question 10 of 21

Based on what he heard during free-association, Freud initially believed that his patients __________.

... In 1896, at a meeting of the Viennese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, Freud claimed that his patients revealed histories of childhood sexual abuse and that the perpetrators were usually family members. The audience was skeptical, perhaps because of perceived poor data collection methods or because the proposed abuse was reported to be so widespread. Freud later reversed his opinion, stating that many of the reports of abuse were actually fantasies.

Question 11 of 21

Freud personally believed that sex _______.

... Freud considered sex a "common animal need" and gave up sex when he reached the age of 41, after fathering six children.

Question 12 of 21

Before renouncing sex, Freud's marital sex life _________.

... Freud resented his wife's preference for procreative sex, yet also disliked the birth control methods available at the time (condoms and withdrawal). He also experienced periods of impotence.

Question 13 of 21

Freud realized he was developing psychological problems in relation to sex; this led him to self-analysis that centered on _______.

... Freud believed that dreams were inspired by the unconscious mind. He could not treat himself through solo free-association, so he analyzed his own dreams on a daily basis. He did engage in free-association about the content of his dreams. Dream analysis became integral to his treatment process.

Question 14 of 21

Through his work in dream analysis, Freud identified _________.

... Through personal dream interpretation, Freud concluded that he resented his father and sexually desired his mother. In his 1900 book "The Interpretation of Dreams," he termed these feelings the "Oedipus complex."

Question 15 of 21

Freud believed in conscious (aware) and unconscious (unaware) aspects of a person's mental life. He later developed these into three constructs. Which is the rational aspect of a person's character?

... The reasonable, rational part of the personality is the ego (Freud called it "ich," German for "I"). The id is the impulsive, amoral aspect, concerned with finding pleasure. The superego is the moral, "parental" part of the personality.

Question 16 of 21

Freud's book The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) profoundly influenced ________.

... Zurich-based psychiatrist Carl Jung adopted Freud's psychoanalytical process after reading the Freud work.

Question 17 of 21

In 1901, Freud published The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, which included discussion of "Fehlleistung." This became known as the Freudian ________.

... The "Freudian slip" is characterized by an unconscious idea coming out as a "slip of the tongue" or a momentary memory lapse. Freud believed the mind, when it "slipped" in this way, was seeking to make its views known.

Question 18 of 21

How many of Freud's six children followed in his footsteps?

... Only the youngest child, Anna Freud, was a psychoanalyst. When she was a teenager, she became interested in her father's work but did not formalize her decision to became an analyst until she was 30 years old.

Question 19 of 21

In 1923, Freud was diagnosed with ________ cancer.

... Though Freud suffered with mouth cancer for 16 years, he never gave up his 20-cigars-a-day habit. He underwent 33 surgeries that amputated parts of his palate and upper jaw.

Question 20 of 21

As the Nazi party rose to power, it __________ psychoanalysis.

... In 1933, Freud's books were publicly burned in Berlin. He did not leave Austria until 1938, after his home was invaded and his daughter arrested. Though he went to England, four of his sisters remained behind and eventually died in concentration camps.

Question 21 of 21

In 1939, Freud died from ________.

... When his cancer spread, Freud was in severe pain. A physician, respecting Freud's wishes, prescribed an overdose of morphine.

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