Sigmund Freud

“Kramer succeeds in reconciling the two Freuds—the inventor of the modern mind and the false saint—and that is a considerable achievement.” — Washington Post Referred to as “the father of psychoanalysis,” Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the “talking cure” and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions—sometimes tyrannical, often misrepresenting the course and outcome of his treatments to make the “f