Freud Museum :: Psychiatry, Museum, Informative

It contains Freuds remark able-bodied collection of antiquities Egyptian Greek Roman and Oriental. Almost two thousand items fill cabinets and atomic number 18 ranged on every surface. There are rows of ancient figures on the desk where Freud wrote until the too soon hours of the morning. The walls are lined with shelves containing Freuds large library of reference books. The house is withal filled with memories of his daughter, Anna, who lived there for 44 years and continued to develop her pioneering psychoanalytic work, especially with children. It was her wish that the house become a museum to honour her storied father. The museum is now being developed as a cultural and look for center of outstanding value to the professional community. The Freuds were fortunate to be able to bring all their furniture and household effects to London there were splendid Biedermeier chests, tables and cupboards, and a fine collection of 18th and 19th-century Austrian painted country furni ture. Undoubtedly the most famous piece of furniture in all the collection is Freuds psychoanalytic drift, on which all of Freuds patients reclined. The couch is remarkably comfortable and is secrecyed with a richly coloured Persian rug with chenille cushions piled on top. Other fine Oriental rugs, Heriz and Tabriz, cover the floor and tables. The Freud Museums central function is to celebrate the life and work of Sigmund and Anna Freud. The museum organises prompt programmes of research and publication. It has an education service which organizes seminars, conferences and special visits to the museum. There is a crap well-stocked with books on the life and work of Sigmund Freud and books on contemporary psychoanalysis.