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Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Freud
Unhappiness
Therapy
Misery
Talk
Turns
Hysterical
Mundane

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