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World Service,17 May 1999,3 mins

Freud's Theory of Psychoanalysis

My Century

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Sigmund Freud believed that neurotic illness was caused by repressing painful/emotionally disturbing memories. Ernst Edern's father Paul Federn worked closely with Freud, and describes Freud and his theory of psychoanalysis.

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