“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.”

—  Sigmund Freud

A remark about the Irish, quoted as a statement of Freud's in the Oscar-winning movie The Departed, there is no evidence Freud ever said it http://www.freud.org.uk/about/faq/.
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Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psycho… 1856–1939

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