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 Jones." Psychologist Hans Eysenck, writing in "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" (1985), described Jones' biography of Freud as the "most famous", but saw it as "more a mythology than a history", charging Jones with suppressing data which might reflect unfavourably on Freud. Historian Roy Porter described Jones' work as "hagiographical and bowdlerized". Philosopher Jerome Neu called "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" the most useful biography of Freud, alongside Gay's "Freud: A Life for Our Time". Philosopher Richard Wollheim called "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" a "great" biography, but observed that while Jones had "lived