Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind

Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind

60 mins | Documentary | Aug. 9, 1996

Sigmund Freud's revolutionary ideas transformed our conception of the mind. Yet, fears and obsessions wracked the father of psychoanalysis. His theories continue to inspire debate, even as the discipline he invented drifts farther from his work. Through personal letters, diaries and interviews with biographers, psychiatrists and Freud's grandchildren, this documentary explores the life of the man who was once derided as the doctor of love.

Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind

60 mins | Documentary | Aug. 9, 1996

Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind
Sigmund Freud's revolutionary ideas transformed our conception of the mind. Yet, fears and obsessions wracked the father of psychoanalysis. His theories continue to inspire debate, even as the discipline he invented drifts farther from his work. Through personal letters, diaries and interviews with biographers, psychiatrists and Freud's grandchildren, this documentary explores the life of the man who was once derided as the doctor of love.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers A+E Studios
Original title Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind
Directors
Writers

Cast

Sigmund Freud

as Himself (archive footage)

Joe Aguayo

as Himself - Psychologist, Historian

Harold P. Blum

as Himself - Executive Director, The Sigmund Freud Archives

Leo Rangell

as Himself - Psychoanalyst

Judith M. Hughes

as Herself - Author

Morton Hunt

as Himself - Author

Walter Freud

as Himself - Sigmund Freud's Grandson

Sophie Freud

as Herself - Sigmund Freud's Granddaughter

Gloria Steinem

as Herself - Author

Anna Freud

as Herself - Sigmund Freud's Daughter (archive footage)

Martha Freud

as Herself - Sigmund Freud's Wife (archive footage)

Edmund Engelman

as Himself - Photographer

Jack Perkins

as Himself - host