Sigmund Freud

The brain, an organ we all have. It is an organ whose power can overcome any challenge. The brain holds what we know as the human unconscious mind. This is a place filled with mysteries and contradictions. It is almost impossible to regard a person's brain without an involuntary tingle of curiosity: what lay deep within the coralline gray whorls of this small, delicate kingdom? What happens along its intricate hallways, within the fine cerebral …

…time, particularly among his medical colleagues. With psychoanalysis, Freud added psychological treatment methods to the biological basis of psychiatry. Beyond that, Freud's concepts--such as the powerful influence of the unconscious thought and behavior and the equally powerful influence of the apparently forgotten past on the present--have become part of our culture. Just as Theseus forever changed his fathers empire when he slayed the minotaur, Freud did when he vanquished the mysteries of the human mind.