Sigmund Freud was born on 6 May 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia. His father, Jacob Freud, who was a skilled wool merchant, married Amalia Freud, Sigmund's mother. Amalia was twenty years younger when she and Jacob married. Sigmund was the first son of eight children, but Jacob his father had two sons in his first marriage. Sigmund's father was born into a Jewish family and left home to distance himself from normal Jewish tradition. When Sigmund was four years old, they moved from Freiberg to Vienna where he lived most of the rest of his life. In 1865, when Sigmund was only nine years old, he entered high school. He excelled particularly well and graduated with honors. While in high school he learned and was proficient in German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. Freud went to the University of Vienna at seventeen. His original plan was to study law, but instead he enrolled in medical school in Vienna. He graduated in medicine in Vienna in 1881. In 1882 he began his medical career at the Vienna General Hospital. In 1891 Freud published his first book On Aphasias: A Critical Study. Freud worked in the hospital for three years and thanks to the publication of his first book he was assigned the chair of neuropathology. He resigned from the hospital in 1886 and also married his wife Minna Bernays. In 1887 they had their first daughter Mathlide, who was followed by 5 more children. Jean-Martin was born in 1889, Oliver in 1891, Ernst in 1892, Sophie in 1893 and Anna in 1895. At 24 Freud started smoking and his colleagues warned him about the effects but he ignored them. Due to World War II, Freud and his family had to move away from Vienna because it was a dangerous place for Jews. ...... middle of paper ......k works a lot. I have read over and over in our books that therapists talk to their patients about their past and see if there is a connection between their current problems and resolve it. Freud was the first to realize the importance of childhood in trying to identify the problem. Freud also takes into account nature and nurture with the id, ego and superego. One limitation might be to get it out of the person. They may hold on to what is wrong with them and you may never feel it. How will you treat him if they won't talk? You can't give him medicine, medicine doesn't fix everything. It takes time with psychodynamic theory to actually pinpoint the problem. It would take weeks, months and even years to find out what's wrong and what happens if someone doesn't have that much time. What if they wanted to find out what's wrong, right now?