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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Freud Museum London (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Sigmund Freud’s famous psychoanalytic couch is preserved in his final office in London, England.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is not believed in my facts.

0:06.2

I've sought my teaist and savoury.

0:11.7

Resistance was heroic and ran energy.

0:18.2

This is a recording of Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology.

0:23.3

Freud's work has had a huge impact, not just on how we talk about mental health, but also how we treat it.

0:29.7

Freud helped move treatment out of the psych ward and onto the couch.

0:34.5

In the end, I succeed it but the struggle is not yet over.

0:43.9

Freud spent the majority of his life and did most of his work in Austria.

0:47.9

But in 1938, the Nazi party came to power, and Freud, who is Jewish, escaped with his family.

0:55.5

He found his new home in London.

0:57.7

It's a very leafy neighborhood in North London.

1:01.4

Really big houses all around.

1:04.0

Freud managed to bring a lot of his books, his huge antique collection, and one very, very important piece of furniture.

1:13.0

This would become possibly the most famous piece of domestic furniture in the world.

1:19.4

If any couch can be called a celebrity, it is this one.

1:24.7

I'm Billan Theris, and this is Atlas of Skira, the celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

1:32.0

Today, we're going to North London, to the Freud Museum.

1:35.3

If there's a couch nearby, lay back.

1:38.5

We are going to talk about your dreams and your relationship with your parents.

1:43.0

Just kidding.

1:49.1

Just kidding. Just kidding. But we will talk about the couch and the house where you can see it. That's after this. Sigmund Freud's parents moved their family to Vienna, Austria when he was just four.

2:11.7

That's where he grew up, where he went to school, and where he developed most of his notable theories.

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