This paper explains that most people know Dr. Sigmund Freud as the "father of psychiatry" and associate him with the famous
"Oedipus Complex", but very few know that, before making his discoveries about the workings of the human mind and
personality, he was a physical scientist, who first used cocaine as an anesthetic during eye surgery. The author points out that Freud, believing one's gender played a very large role in the development of one's personality and mind, was the first physician to treat mentally and emotionally disturbed patients humanely. The paper states that, although Freud's methodology seems to have gone out of style, Freud's granddaughter, also a psychiatrist, believes that the core of Freud's thinking reflects, in many ways, pioneering postmodern insights
compatible with current cognitive and constructivist ideas and neurophysiological brain research. Table of Contents Early Life From Fear to Modernity Same Stuff, Different Day A Man for our Times? Time's Up