Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg (which is now Pribor, Czech Republic) . At the age of three, he and his family moved to Leipzig to get away from the Anti-Semitic riots that were raging at that time. Shortly thereafter, they moved into Vienna where he was educated. In 1886 he began his work by opening a private practice center for the treatment of hysteria. Then ten years later he started to use his term "psychoanalysis" to describe his theory of the mind, and his ideas of therapy. Freud first used "defense" as one of his psychoanalytic terms in 1894, and with this came the beginning to his various defense mechanisms. Both he and....

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