Facts about Sigmund Freud

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   Freud's patient count peaked at approximately 40 concurrent analysands during the 1920s, with each session costing 25 Austrian schillings, establishing the foundational fee structure for modern psychoanalytic practice.

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   Freud's personal correspondence reveals he suffered from severe anxiety attacks, depression, and cardiac symptoms throughout the 1890s, which he documented in letters to Wilhelm Fliess between 1887 and 1904.

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   Freud's complete collected works span 24 volumes in the Standard Edition, translated by James Strachey between 1953 and 1974, making it the definitive English-language archive of his theories and clinical observations.

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   Freud's practice in Vienna generated approximately 240,000 Austrian schillings annually by 1900, making him one of the city's wealthiest physicians despite limited insurance coverage.

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   Between 1856 and 1939, Freud published over 330 works including books, papers, and letters that fundamentally shaped modern psychology and psychiatry.

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   Freud's cocaine use and advocacy lasted from the 1880s until approximately 1896, during which he administered the drug to patients and colleagues, including his friend Wilhelm Fliess.

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   In 1938, Freud fled Vienna to London after the Nazi annexation of Austria, leaving behind his daughter Anna who was briefly detained by the Gestapo.

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