ABSTRACT
The international movement Sigmund Freud started put pressure on him to act and react differently than as a healer and intellectual and brought out the more rigid side of his personality. Biographers, such as Ernest Jones, depicted Freud as a heroic figure struggling against intense criticism and opposition. Most Freudian clinicians have followed in his footsteps, greatly appreciated their founder, and have had only a minor interest in his limitations. The inventor of psychoanalysis only had self-analysis, while the latter appeared to be in analysis throughout most of his adult life. In retrospect, neither movement was able to ensconce itself within the academic departments in the U.S.A., although in Vienna as of 2005 there is a Sigmund Freud University teaching psychotherapy. The many institutes teaching psychoanalysis provide a solid base for continued support, while the psychohistory is much more precarious.
