Martha Bernays
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Wife of the great psychologist Sigmund Freud. She and Freud became parents to three sons and three daughters: Jean-Martin, Oliver, Ernst, Mathilde, Sophie, and Anna.
She married Freud in 1886 following a four-year engagement.
During their courtship, Freud wrote her numerous love letters.
Her parents were named Berman and Emmeline Bernays.
Her their husband, Sigmund Freud, founded the practice of psychoanalysis and became the father of modern psychology.