(1) overview and freud's biography

• Who is the founder of psychoanalysis?

  Sigmund Freud
• What is the primary assumption of psychoanalysis?

  All people possess unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories.
• How do many personality theories proposed after Freud relate to his work?

  They are derivatives of or elaborations on his basic work.
• When was Sigmund Freud born?

  May 6, 1856
• What profession did Freud initially pursue before founding psychoanalysis?

  He was a neurologist.
• What childhood feelings did Freud recall regarding his father?

  Hostility and anger
• What were some of Freud's lifelong personality characteristics?

  High self-confidence, intense ambition, and dreams of glory and fame.
• Why was Freud drawn into medicine?

  He was intensely curious about human nature.
• In what year did Freud receive a traveling grant from the University of Vienna?

  1885
• With whom did Freud study in Paris?

  Jean-Martin Charcot
• What technique did Freud learn for treating hysteria?

  The hypnotic technique
• What characterizes hysteria as a disorder?

  Paralysis or improper functioning of certain parts of the body.
• Who did Freud develop a close professional association with?

  Josef Breuer
• What process did Breuer teach Freud about?

  Catharsis
• How does catharsis work in treating hysterical symptoms?

  By "talking them out."
• What is the title of Freud's greatest work published in 1899?

  Interpretation of Dreams
• With whom did Freud publish Studies on Hysteria?

  Josef Breuer