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          Helen Puner's biography, long unavailable, is far more than a professional appreciation.

          The first authoritative and penetrating study of Freud's life and his psychoanalytic methods....

          One in this series of documentaries which examines the professional and personal lives of a wide range of individuals, both those in the public eye and those of historic note.

          This documentary, hosted by Jack Perkins, utilizes rare still photographs; archival footage; and interviews with family, friends, collaborators, and historians to examine the life and career of psychotherapy pioneer Sigmund Freud.

          After a brief introduction by Perkins, Freud's alternately traumatic and cheerful childhood is discussed by psychiatrist/historian Joe Aguayo and Harold P. Blum, the director of the Sigmund Freud archives.

          Freud: his life and his mind, a biography.

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        2. The first authoritative and penetrating study of Freud's life and his psychoanalytic methods.
        3. This documentary, hosted by Jack Perkins, utilizes rare still photographs; archival footage; and interviews with family, friends, collaborators, and historians.
        4. Helen Puner's biography, long unavailable, is far more than a professional appreciation.

          5. The most interesting aspect of Freud's youth, according to Blum, is the significant fact that Freud kept a journal of his dreams even as a young boy. Aguayo discusses Freud's intense ambition, which took on a decidedly combative edge in the face of Vienna's anti-Semitism.

          Judith M. Hughes, author of "From Freud's Consulting Room," discusses the irony in the sexually repressed Freud