The Young Freud

Secret Lives – Season 1

The second programme in the series turns its attention to Sigmund Freud. His significance as the father of psychoanalysis is an accepted fact, but what is the truth about the man who, even as he approached his 40s, feared he would remain an unknown Viennese nerve specialist? Uses dramatisations and interviews with medical historian Helmut Gröger; academic John Forrester; psychoanalyst Marianne Springer-Kremser; writer Lisa Appignanesi; Ernst Federn, family friend of the Freuds; and Jeffrey Masson, editor of Freud's letters.