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
Unauthorized Freud Unauthorized Freud Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend is a 1998 book about Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, edited by the critic Frederick Crews. The book received both positive reviews, crediting Crews with having assembled a coherent case against Freud's theories and therapeutic techniques, and more mixed evaluations, which criticized Crews for lacking objectivity. "Unauthorized Freud" is a collection of critical articles about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. In addition to Crews, the contributors include the critic Stanley Fish, the historians David Stannard and Peter Swales, the philologist Sebastiano Timpanaro, the philosophers Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Frank Cioffi, Barbara Von Eckardt, Ernest