David Freud, Baron Freud David Freud, Baron Freud David Anthony Freud, Baron Freud, PC (born 24 June 1950) is a British politician. He is a former Minister of State for Welfare Reform in the Conservative Government of the United Kingdom. Before he joined the Conservative Party, he advised New Labour on welfare reform during its final term of office. He is a past vice-chairman of investment banking at UBS. He stepped down from his government role at the end of December 2016. Freud is the son of Walter Freud and a great-grandson of the physician and pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. He was educated at
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud was unreliable and replaced the negative legend with a positive legend. Historian R. Andrew Paskauskas found that Jones' use of his correspondence with Freud in "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" involved significant problems, especially where Jones altered Freud's English. According to Paskauskas, while Jones stated that he had not altered Freud's grammar, "there are nevertheless many dissimilarities of spelling, grammar, and punctuation between the letters quoted in Jones's published biography and Freud's originals." He accused Jones of errors in his citations of Freud's letters, such as mistakenly citing his letters to Freud as letters from Freud. Historian of