#8 Overall Influence
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
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Why is this person notable and influential?Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
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Schools
What schools is this person affiliated with?Notable Works
What contributions to academia has this person made?- The Interpretation of Dreams
- Totem and Taboo
- The Question of Lay Analysis
- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
- The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
- The Ego and the Id
- Studies on Hysteria
- On Narcissism
- On Aphasia
- Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
- Dream Psychology
- Das Unheimliche
- Cinq psychanalyses
- Cinq leçons sur la psychanalyse
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle
- An Outline of Psychoanalysis
Influence Rankings by Discipline
How’s this person influential?#1 World Rank
Psychology
#2 World Rank
Medical