BIOGRAPHY: SIGMUND FREUD: ANALYSIS OF A MIND (TV)
Summary
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. 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's
research into the role of sexual repression and abuse in
patients' neuroses and his conclusion that this
repression was the primary catalyst for hysteria and
dementia. Morton Hunt, author of "The Story of
Psychology," talks about Freud's infamous cocaine
research and the disastrous effect of the drug on a
number of his colleagues and friends. The lengthy
middle portion of the program is devoted to Freud's
major life achievement, his discovery of the unconscious
mind. His various treatments -- talk therapy, dream
analysis, free association -- are explained and explored
briefly. The last third of the episode discusses
Freud's troubles later in life, including his feud with
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, his cancer, and his
crippling loneliness. Finally, granddaughter Sophie
Freud discusses Freud's unusual relationship with his
daughter Anna. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by The
Marc Haas and Helen Hotze Haas Foundations, 2000.
Details
- NETWORK: A&E
- DATE: November 30, 1994
- RUNNING TIME: 0:46:50
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:58006
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Biography; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Psycholanalysis
- SERIES RUN: A&E - TV series, 1987-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- For Arts & Entertainment:
- Michael Cascio … Executive Producer
- For "Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind":
- Craig Haffner … Executive Producer
- Donna E. Lusitana … Executive Producer
- Henry Schipper … Producer
- Melanie Blythe … Production (Misc.), Series Producer
- Michael D. Sackett … Production (Misc.), Segment Producer
- Christopher L. Stone … Music by
- Zeljko Marasovich … Music by
- Jack Perkins … Host, Narrator
- Joe Aguayo
- Harold P. Blum
- Anna Freud
- Sigmund Freud
- Sophie Freud
- Judith M. Hughes
- Morton Hunt
- Carl Jung