Summaries-Jadden14

  1. A Price Too High

1. It seems counterintuitive that people support nuclear power to counteract global warming, but fail to see the cost in both safety and budget concerns. Nuclear power, as efficient and safe as it is, still arises concerns with it being built close to cities and towns. The massive 9.0 earthquake that happened in Japan, led to a nuclear meltdown in one of its plants. These natural disasters could easily trigger a meltdown in the United States, and have in the past led to plant shutdowns due to safety concerns. The waste product from these plants are not very environmentally friendly either. When plant officials are questioned on how the waste is disposed, they often try to avoid the question. Not to mention the cost to build these plants, as nuclear power plants are quite expensive to build. Not only that, but ratepayers will have to pay for the rediculious cost-overruns, which today totals up to 200 billion dollars from previous plants. As great as reducing CO2 emissions would be, nuclear power might not be the best answer.

2. Polio Vaccination Campaign

2. It seems counterintuitive that Northern Nigeria denied the polio vaccine when its one of the most infected areas in Africa. In 2003, three states in Nigeria boycotted the GPEI immunization campaign to eradicate polio. Due to the political powers in Nigeria at the time, vaccination was abruptly silenced. There reasoning was that the vaccines had contained carcinogenic agents and parents should not let their kids get vaccinated. The Governors even got political figues to get up and speak about how America is corrupt and trying to mess with the vaccines. Some of the reasons Nigeria showed little support for vaccination could be due to its low health care utilization rates. In 2003, their ultilization rate was about 8% in Southern Nigeria. At the time, a majority of control over health care was led by each state government. Northern Nigeria was colonized by Islamic Jihadists, and the South Nigeria was colonized by Britain. The differences between southern government and northern government caused issues, as their attitudes toward medicine were vastly different. The Trovan Trial, a drug in the past the brought up how western health intervention was using unethical means, testing new drugs on patients. This led to people dying due to dangerous means of vaccination. Nigeria had its concerns, and there was nothing that the GPEI could do about it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831725/

3. Is Walmart Really Going Organic and Local?

3. It seems counterintuitive that walmart is claiming to go Organic and Local when it can’t even sufficiently supply its stores from local farms. Because walmart is such a large business, going local and organic is hard to do. Walmart makes up about 18% of all grocery sales in the United States. When questioned about which farms walmart gets its local produce from, the response led to other ideas. The three farms, located in North Carolina, Washington, and Arkansas, are non-organic. In order for walmart to become organic, it would have to buy from smaller farms at a higher price, and these farms could’nt fill the demand walmart requires. Walmart is not a charity, it is a business, therefore i’m doubtful it will spend more money and go through the hassle of buying from local farms. Walmart will continue to sell its produce, however they will continue to make a profit. So next time you go to the store and look for organic food, you might not be getting exactly what you asked for.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/03/walmart-groceries-organic-local-food-deserts/

Summaries–rainbow987

1: Give Heroin Addicts Heroin
https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world

It seems counterintuitive that the prescribed treatment method for heroin addicts is to give them heroin. However, this act is being done for the severest of drug addicts in the Vancouver area. Since Vancouver is a port city, there are high numbers of drugs, including heroin, arriving by ship on a regular basis. To combat crime and other related acts committed in desperation as addicts attempt to find their next fix, the city has established a program that gives addicts free heroin. The program allows addicts to use heroin without the risk of getting into trouble. They are monitored by healthcare professionals and always given sterile materials. The program is only available to 26 people in Vancouver. These addicts have unsuccessfully attempted to get off of the drug many times in a variety of ways, including the use of methadone. This program is intended to be a last resort option.

This newly established program is an attempt to lower crime rates related to drug abuse. However, many argue that it is extremely inhumane. By giving drug addicts heroin, they are slowly dying. As soon as they are not able to have the drug, he or she will be in a detrimental situation and crime will most likely resume. Many argue against the program by saying that it does not provide any sort of rehabilitation. Either way, by giving an addict heroin, he or she is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.

2: Is Walmart going “organic and local?”
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/03/walmart-groceries-organic-local-food-deserts/

It seems counterintuitive to say that Walmart is going “organic and local” when approximately only two percent of their produce is organic and nine percent is local. Walmart’s intentions are not to provide healthier options for the benefit of society. It’s intentions are to make sales. Therefore, it makes sense that the company tries to purchase produce “locally” to save money on transportation and lessen the rotting of products. However, the term locally is used loosely. Walmart considers local to be within the state. In addition, Walmart’s expansion of organic products is not focused on produce. It is primarily aimed at other products such as milk and baby food. Advertising for having produce that is organic and grown locally is rather deceptive and not an accurate representation of the majority of Walmart’s products.

It does seem counterintuitive to advertise produce in such a way at Walmart stores. However, it is an effective advertising technique to draw in customers. With many other health food stores opening, it is not likely that the average Walmart shopper will be extremely concerned about his or her food being grown organically and/or locally. Therefore, the words “organic and local” serve as a way to get someone to enter the building and spend money, even if they are not an accurate portrayal of the produce.

3: Figure Skating Bias
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/figure-skating-judges-get-10-duplicity

It seems counterintuitive that the instatement of a rule to prevent bias in judging would cause favoring and bias to increase. However, the judging for the Olympic figure skating competition did just that after a rule was established in 2002 to keep judges scores anonymous. The rule was created in result of a scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, in which judges traded votes to ensure that competitors from each of their countries placed highest. Keeping the judge’s scores anonymous, although meant to prevent vote trading, caused potential bias to increase by twenty percent. It was estimated that if a judge serving on a panel was from the same country as a competitor, that competitor would score two places higher than if the two did not share a country origin. The anonymity of the vote allowed the judge to vote as they please, with no one being able to accuse of bias since their vote was not revealed to the public.

Although counterintuitive that after a rule put in place to prevent bias was instated, bias rose, the rule itself does not seem effective. The rule to keep the judges votes anonymous to prevent bias through vote trading does not seem like it would work because there is no accountability involved. Therefore, it makes sense that bias would increase.

Summaries – thebeard

1. Serious Psychological Disorders in College Students

It seems counterintuitive that college students deal with so many mental issues while at school. Many university administrators and mental health professionals have increased their awareness of these mental problems students go through. Despite different kinds of efforts from college staff, it doesn’t really lower the thought of suicide in the students during the school year. Each year more and more students start to deal many of the disorders and never want to get help. Most of the time when a student does try and get help it they are forced to leave school to try and get better or take medicine they do not want to. Sometimes this even discourages other students from coming forward and saying they don’t need help because they may not want to leave school and get better. Also many students believe that they will just get better with time, which usually does not happen.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-campus/201111/serious-psychological-disorders-in-college-students

2. Close call in death ruling of potential organ donor

It seems counterintuitive that the doctors that save lives could simply declare someone brain-dead who is nowhere close. Doctors would rather take one persons organs to donate to another than try and save the first persons life. It is very rarely a patient is wrongfully declared brain-dead; this happening could sour the public and even the ones who many depend on for organ donation. If someone in my family, that was an organ donor, was close to death but could be saved I would want the doctors to do everything in their power to save them. Doctors should not be worried about the organs that might help someone else out but worry about the person whose organs they are in the first place.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr/12/local/me-transplant12

3. Where can you choose to end your life?

It seems counterintuitive that we have to give people the right to end their own life; it is terrible if someone wants to do so but it should be for a good reason. It makes more sense if someone wants to end their life if they are already dying and want to end the suffering. What if someone is going through a rough part in their life and don’t want to continue anymore? They should still be able to choose whether they want to live or die, it would be ashamed if they did end their life because of the people they would hurt by doing this, but it should be their choice. In many countries, such as the Netherlands, they have been helping people choose a way to end their life. The Netherlands is said to possibly be the best-know place to end their life in an assisted way. In the United States only some states allow assistance in death but it is only if the patient has terminally ill criteria. In most places this a choice for people, whether you take it or not it is still an option till the end.

https://theconversation.com/where-can-you-choose-to-end-your-life-56246

Summaries-theintern

1. Behavior of Social Systems

It seems counterintuitive that humans have trouble understanding themselves and how complex they are. Humans keep making the same mistake and repeating history, we can fix almost anything that has to deal with technology or any other materialistic item. However, we can not find the answer to fix our ourselves and the errors we commit. For example with technology we have a test run and see if there are any defects. Once we figure out the errors we fix the tweaks and make the same mistake again and have the technology working properly. However, with ourselves there is no test run to see what the outcome is. Even if there is a test run, we get influenced by the wrong people at times which has always a different outcome on the situation.

There are many different situations that go against the social systems which sums up how humans are uncontrollable and unpredictable. Comparing to technology or computer models they are predictable and able to control if something gets out of control. While technology is programmed by humans they come out doing the jobs they are intended for; but, for humans they try to think ahead to see of what kind of outcome could happen but their mental models are never accurate like technology where it can always be accurate just like a calculator.

http://www.constitution.org/ps/cbss.htm

2.  How the mind works

It seems counterintuitive that we try to seek for help always because we think something is wrong with us. When we do seek for help its looked upon as silliness or absurd. Phycologists have figured out ten different studies how our minds work. Some of these ten studies are hallucinations, choice blindness, brainstorming, fantasies, and the placebo effect.

There are many studies but do phycologists really know the answer to them, for some it might be true but for the other studies I believe they are wrong. Let’s start off with the hallucinations which were said are common and are considered as a mental illness, my thoughts about this subject is absurd hallucinations can happen to anyone, there is no mental illness to it. People believe what they are told, like if you take this pill you’ll feel better which in some cases might be true but that is why there is the placebo effect. There are many studies around placebos and how there are always two groups of people, one group gets the actual pill while the others get a fake pill that doesn’t do anything to your body. People’s minds are so powerful that they think that the pill is working because the doctor supposedly gave them a pill that will help them but in reality its the placebo.

Phycologists explain how fantasies reduce motivation which I find that to be false. Getting a taste of the future through fantasies help people visualize how hard they must work towards that fantasy to come true. There are many other studies that Phycologists observe and study but what if they post these articles to influence the minds of those who think they are fine but have to second guess themselves because of some article that became popular and stating some results that are similar to those who see themselves as healthy. The mind works in many different, weird but powerful ways.

http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/02/how-the-mind-really-works-10-counterintuitive-psychology-studies.php

3. Corruption in Figure Skating Judging

It seems counterintuitive that figure skating is considered fixed. It says that the the judges were from five other countries and they all picked Russian couple. Economist Eric Zitzewitz of Dartmouth University covers most of the story of how the judges allegedly ranked a Russian figure-skating pair in the 2002 Olympics. Though my opinion is what are the jobs of the judges; I say their jobs are to pick the best couple. This drama happens all the time just because their favorite couple didn’t win they start trying to look for an excuse why the team that won should have lost.

Zitzewitz looked in detail at all the judges from different years and said that he found out that all judges have cheated in the past not just that, every judge whose ethnicity was the same as the competitors they’d score them higher. Now what I am saying is why do people notice this one incident as a big deal if in the past it might’ve also happened and no one really made it stand out. Even if the incident did happen I bet if anyone had the chance to be a judge they would commit the same mistake of cheating.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/figure-skating-judges-get-10-duplicity

Purposeful Summaries–Splash305

  1. Where can you choose to end your life?

It seems counterintuitive that people have such different ways of viewing what gives someone the right to end their own life. Yes, it makes sense to be able to end your life if you are already dying from a painful terminal illness, and would like someone to assist you with the process. But what if you are going through something as minor as depression and don’t have interest in continuing your life? We should all have the right to choose when we want to die and how. The Netherlands has been helping people choose to end their own life since 2001, Belgium since 2002, and Luxembourg since 2009 with both euthanasia and assisted suicide. The states in the U.S. only allow assisted suicide for patients who are terminally ill. For example, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont, and California. Most people don’t understand that we are all mortal and going to die anyway, we don’t need someone to give us the right to do such a thing.

http://theconversation.com/where-can-you-choose-to-end-your-life-56246

 

  1. Addiction as a disease

It seems counterintuitive that people don’t consider drug addiction to be an actual disease. Addiction is something that happens differently in each person. The way this happens is the same as when you satisfy your needs for food, water, or sex, your body gets the feeling of satisfaction or reward. When you take in chemicals it gives your body a version of that feeling, cause the brain to want it again. Over time it starts to change the brains systems with the feelings of reward, motivation, and memory; it may even start to be needed for the person to feel normal throughout the day. People also don’t understand that someone’s own will power isn’t always strong enough to get them to stop. Although there are people who can manage to stop on their own will power, it isn’t always the case for others. For about 25-50% of people with a substance abuse problem they have a very bad chronic disorder; these types of people are the ones who need therapy, rehab, and the helpful support of family and loved ones. Even though the early stages of addiction may be by choice, once the brain is changed by addiction it is believed that people truly lose control of their own behavior and actions.

https://www.centeronaddiction.org/what-addiction/addiction-disease

 

  1. Serious psychological disorders in college students

It seems counterintuitive that students go through so much stress and anxiety while at college. Despite the best efforts of the teaching staff and counselors trying to lower the stress and anxiety level of students, it still doesn’t stop them from contemplating suicide throughout the year. The rate of depression in college students seems to be increasing each year; and the rate of which some go on medicine seem to be increasing as well. Major depressive disorder, for example as explained in the DSM-IV, has various symptoms to look out for in students. For example, having a sad or depressed mood for most of the day, loss of interest in doing different daily activities, changes in the way you eat or a rapid loss or gain of weight, feeling as though you are worthless or not needed, and suicidal thoughts. A few or more of these symptoms must be shown or felt for a couple weeks to be able to give some sort of diagnosis. Even when a student comes forward for help, a lot of time they are asked to get treatment or asked to take a medical leave of absence until they are better. Even though this is the correct way to help someone in need they fear it may discourage others to come forward for help; because those individuals may feel embarrassed or won’t want to take time off of schooling to get better.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-campus/201111/serious-psychological-disorders-in-college-students

Summaries–11collegegirl

  1. Free Heroin to Battle AddictionIt seems counterintuitive that Vancouver is giving its worst addicts a place to shoot up where they can feel safe along with free pre-scripted heroin. This is a good start to making the city better. The city of Vancouver is knows for its great appeal for tourist. But, the touristy city is not all that perfect. The downtown Eastside part of the city is known for being a port town, a home for drugs. To help with the drug issue, Vancouver has created a place called the Insight, which allows addicts to shoot up, feel safe, and not have the fear being arrested. Along with the safe zone, Vancouver is now giving its addicts free heroin to help with their addiction. Kevin Thompson, an addict who uses the Insight, says that because of the safe zone and the free heroin, he is able to keep and job and never has to look for ways to get heroin since he knows exactly where to go to. The city of Vancouver’s crime rate has decreased due to the fact that they are keeping the addicts out of the streets. Although these addicts may never get off the drug since its offered free, the city of Vancouver will continue to keep crime off the streets.

    https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world

  2. Organ Donor ControversyIt seems counterintuitive to have a division of age for people who are in need of transplants. There should be no division, and if someone is in need of a transplant, they should be able to get it without having to be on a longer list per say if they were a child. A 10-year-old girl who suffered with cystic fibrosis finally received a life changing lung transplant. For months, the family waiting for pediatric lungs, which was its policy since the girl was under 12-years-old. The family of the girl filed a law suit trying to get their suffering daughter on the much larger adult list for transplants. This policy is set in place because it is said to be a dangerous procedure when adult lungs are transplanted into a child. After going to court, the judge ruled in the families favor. Lawrence Fitzgerald, a man who spoke upon this issue argued that if someone is in need of something immediately, there should be no question about helping that person. Now, the courts fear that they are going to be flooded my families who are also fighting for transplants who want to win their fight the same way this family did.

 

3. Man Ends His Own Life to Donate His Organs

It seems counterintuitive for someone to request to die in hopes to save others lives. If someone wants to make the choice of assisted suicide, it should be allowed, only under the circumstances that they have a meaningful reason. In 2011, doctors fulfilled a patience request which was to die and have their organs donated. Mario, a man who suffered for so long, decided to take on this life change after realizing he was not going to get any better. He insisted that his native country, Belgium, make assisted suicide legal. A year later, he received a lethal injection by his doctor, which made him the first man in the country of Belgium to utilize the new law. Mario, who was the doctor of Diane, believes that assisted suicide can be positive arguing that people get to chose the way they die. Years later, Diane, a woman who suffered from a stroke, decided it was time to free her body. She claimed it was miserable for her to live in pain constantly. Researched came to believe that assisted suicide may lead to doctors pressuring their patience pursue this procedure. Since Mario, almost 5,000 have chosen assisted suicide as there means of dying.

Summaries-Flyerfan1974

  1. Polio Vaccination Boycott

It seems counterintuitive that people boycott vaccinations, even though they are used to eradicate disease. In 1996 Nelson Mandela launched the Kick Polio out of Africa campaign which had a goal to vaccinate 50 million children. In 2003 Northern Nigerian state leaders began to denounce the polio vaccination. They told parents to not let their children get the vaccination, due to the contamination of  anti-fertility agents (estradiol hormone), HIV, and cancerous agents. These leaders were suspicious of anything from the western world. They believed America and western allies deliberately  put carcinogens, anti fertility agents, and HIV in the polio vaccine. Previous policies that limited the number of children a woman could have, made people believe that anti fertility drugs were inserted in the vaccine. A committee was appointed to access the safety of the vaccine, but was rejected due to no muslim representation. After an 11 month boycott the Nigerian state Kano leader finally gave their approval for the production of approval from Biopharma, and Indonesian company. Indonesia is a muslim country trusted by the Nigerian muslim leaders.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831725/

2. Organ Donor Vultures

I find it counterintuitive that doctors give very poor care to patients who are close to death and organ donors. A man who agreed to donate his organs upon death was wrongly declared brain dead by doctors. A suspicious daughter and nurse brought in a neurosurgeon who determined that the man was not brain dead. The mans daughter later described the first doctors as vultures. She also stated that she would receive calls from the organ donation group. They would say statements such as “we need to retrieve the organs in a certain amount of time”, and “how is your fathers condition today.” When the two doctors determined the man brain dead, they came in the room and said “we have 2 signatures thats it we need to pull the plug.” A nurse later performed her own investigation determining he had a strong gag reflex. After this the third doctor came into the room to determine he was not brain dead at all. With a national organ shortage, many believe that doctors are compromising care for organs. In San Luis Obispo a doctor is under investigation for apparently ordering a high volume of medication for an organ donor patient who later died. Many other physicians call this spooky and a rare high stakes error.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr/12/local/me-transplant12

 

3. Vancouver Addicts

I find it counterintuitive that Vancouver provides a place for addicts to legally use drugs. Vancouver, a beautify city has a dark side to it. Vancouver has set up a safe zone called Insite, where addicts can shoot up heroin without fear of being arrested. In this safe zone nurses provide clean syringes, antiseptic wipes, and other instruments. They are also giving the addicts the best heroine. These people are receiving free heroin prescribed by a doctor, 2-3 times a day. The center is for people who did not take heroin alternatives to get clean. These people are the most severe addicts in Vancouver. One man said that the program can help him keep down a job, and not have to spend time looking for his next fix. The free heroin also keeps crime off the streets, the people either break into a car to get money for heroin or get free heroin from the program. Vancouver is blackmailing its heroin addicts. These severely addicted heroin addicts will never get off heroin, so the free drugs keep these people from being the less dangerous drug addicts they can be.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world

 

Purposeful Summaries- Yoshi189

  1. The Cruelest Show on Earth

I find it counterintuitive that people continue to go to the circus when they are aware of the abuse the animals go through. Elephants are becoming extinct because of poachers and circuses. The circus hires people to capture elephants in the wild, while they are sleeping. In this process many elephants die, and the ones who remain alive are not the lucky ones. The captured elephants get hoisted into a ship and taken on a voyage to New York! Some elephants die in the boat on the 12,000 mile trip. Once they get closer to their destination the workers throw the dead elephants overboard. Once the animals arrive to their destination, which is usually a circus, they go into training.

Training is not pretty for these elephants. Trainers claim to use positive reinforcement to train elephants, but instead they use bullhooks. A bullhook is a three foot long metal rod with a sharp hook and point at the end of it. The hook is inserted in the ear or mouth and used to pulling, and the point is used for pushing. A baby elephant’s trainer was once witnessed bashing the elephant’s head with his rod, because the elephant was sick and not performing his tricks. When elephants don’t perform their tricks they get taken back to their stall after the show. In their stall they get beaten with whips and metal rods. All because they missed their cue or because they were sick. Elephants are highly intelligent creatures, and should not be treated like that. Children love circuses because they love seeing the animals. If everyone was educated about elephants, and knew the horror that happened behind the scenes, no one would go to the circus anymore. Spokesman for the USDA come out to circuses to investigate the abuse, but they always find ‘no evidence of abuse’. In order for circuses to stop abusing elephants, us, the people have to stop providing money for these circuses.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2011/10/ringling-bros-elephant-abuse/

 

2.  Vancouver combats heroin

I find it counterintuitive that Vancouver gives their biggest heroin addicts the best heroin on the planet. In downtown eastside Vancouver, they have the biggest drug epicenter. In attempts to help the drug addicts, Vancouver set up a safe zone called an ‘insite’. In the insite drug addicts can shoot up under the supervision of a nurse. The insite provides the addicts with clean syringes and antibacterial wipes. In addition to the supplies, they are also supplying them with the heroin! The addicts receive free heroin prescribed by a doctor. This seems insane, but it is actually helping the city of Vancouver. The city of Vancouver realized it was better to help an addict get their fix, rather than see them in an alley dead with a syringe in their arm. One of the addicts that has received help from the insite, now is able to hold down a job; because he is not worrying about his next fix and he is much more calmer. The city of Vancouver is more so killing the addicts with kindness. They are helping the addicts with their fix; knowing it will still kill them, but at least the city of Vancouver’s crime rate went down.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world

 

3.  Belgium: Controversial Organ Donation

I find it counterintuitive that someone would kill themselves in order to be able to sell their organs. In 1993, Mario Vesculiti was suffering from multiple sclerosis. He realized he wasn’t going to get better, and that he was suffering. In September of 2002, he made a life or death decision. He euthanized himself in order to stop suffering. His doctor convinced him that suicide was a positive idea. After Belgium released a law allowing people to euthanize themselves, 1,000 people died from it. Diane suffered from a stroke, and she also euthanized herself because she wanted to donate her organs. Organ donation linked to euthanizing should not be frowned upon. Most people won’t want to live their life if they are suffering. Diane thought donating her organs was a great idea. She was told not to end her life, but she didn’t want to live anymore. She figured euthanizing herself at least her organs will go to good use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST8MSgh5ERE

Summaries- Life is Sublime

1.    Penis envy and the female Oedipus complex: A Plea to Reawaken an Ineffectual Debate By: Siegfried Zepf,  Dietmar Seel

It seems counterintuitive that people would consider Sigmund Freud to be the father of psychology. With crazy theories and concepts, it’s a wonder why this man wasn’t just labeled as crazy but as the founder and creator of psychoanalysis. One of the biggest controversial theories Freud ever published was his theory on Penis Envy. Freud thought that little girls, like little boys, have a very potentiate sex drive. Penis Envy was his way of explaining the sex drive that the girls had. Throughout the years his theory has been argued and studied. A handful of female psychologists have made it a point to prove this theory wrong. For starters, Freud was very back-and-forth with his thoughts on what a little girl experienced making his claims to be wobbly to begin with. His theory was also put up against other theories that don’t single gender out. Others find his theories to be symbolic to other psychological factors and concepts.

http://guilfordjournals.com.ezproxy.rowan.edu/doi/pdf/10.1521/prev.2016.103.3.397

2.  Freud’s Not Dead; He’s Just Really Hard to Find by: Susan Krauss Whitebourne Ph.D

It seems counterintuitive that Sigmund Freud is consider to be the father of psychology, but there are many psychologist out there that claim his theories still hold truth. Even though Freud is known for his more erotic theories with sexual drive, that’s not all he is known for. Sigmund Freud was the first psychologist to analyze dreams and the unconscious and his findings/theories are still being used by psychologist today. With many people making an opinion on his work, Freud’s concepts are being used in practices and have become a jumping point for a lot of other theories in psychology today.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201205/freud-s-not-dead-he-s-just-really-hard-find

3.  Sigmund Freud: Life, Work and Theories by: Alina Bradford

It seems counterintuitive that the father of Psychology was originally a biologist, but he in fact was. To understand the theories, you first need to understand the man behind the theories. Sigmund Freud lived in the mid 1800s under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was raised in Vienna and had 6 children, one of which became a psychologist in order to prove her father wrong about his idea of Penis Envy in little girls. Sigmund Freud lived a fairly normal life until he stepped into the world of psychology, creating psychoanalysis. He worked with many of his own children, as well as the children in the neighborhood. Sigmund Frued’s life can give insight on the theories he had created.

https://www.livescience.com/54723-sigmund-freud-biography.html