Here is a compelling biography of a man who changed the face of society: the inventor of psychoanalysis. Freud's story begins with his birth in 1856 in Moravia. The book then presents the key moments of his life: his childhood, meeting his wife Martha, his medical studies, his encounter with Charcot in Paris, his first "discoveries" about the unconscious, the "invention of psychoanalysis," famous cases (Dora, the Rat Man, Little Hans), and the concepts he created (the Oedipus complex, the myth of the father).