The name was used as the name of the matchmaker in the Broadway musical hit, Fiddler on the Roof. It was the name of an Israeli spy agency in the 1960's TV sitcom Get Smart, in an episode titled 'The Man from Yenta'.
Posted on January 10, 2010 by Dan. Albert Ellis (1913-2007) is known as the grandfather of cognitive behavior therapy. In 1955, he developed rational emotive therapy or better known as rational emotive behavior therapy of REBT from combining philosophical, humanistic and behavioral therapy.
Sigmund Freud of Vienna, who is considered as the father of modern psychology, originated a new method called the Free Association Technique. Freud considered that mind has three parts  the conscious, the pre-conscious and the unconscious. He considered that 90% of the mind is the unconscious mind.