We learned that there are many branches of psychology such as experimental and cognitive, Freud was not a psychologist but a neuroscientist. Freud influenced society between 1880-1920 by introducing psychoanalysis and the idea of sexual repression. Psychoanalysis is a technique used on patients with trauma or mental disorders. Patients tap into their unconscious mind by talking in hope to bring repressed fears into patient’s conscious mind. Mental illness was not well known and there was a belief amongst physician that any physical pain must have come from a physical injury. Freud discovered a treatment for pain that did not have a physical cause, and this was psychoanalysis. In society during 1880-1920, sex was a taboo subject. Freud believed
