Kurt Freund married Anna Hlounova, a non-Jewish Czech pianist and music teacher, on 13 January 1942.
12 Facts About Kurt Freund
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Many of Kurt Freund's relatives were murdered in the Holocaust, including his parents Heinrich and Hella, and his brother Hans.
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In 1948, Kurt Freund joined the Department of Psychiatry at Charles University in Prague.
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Kurt Freund fled to Canada in 1968, in the wake of the Prague Spring.
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Between 1950 and 1953, Kurt Freund treated 67 men for homosexual tendencies.
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Kurt Freund followed up with his patients in 1956 and 1958, concluding that the experiment was not a success.
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Kurt Freund challenged contemporary psychoanalytic theories of male homosexuality that suggested it was due to a fear or aversion to women.
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Around 1953, Kurt Freund began to develop a device for penile plethysmography to measure blood flow to the penis, building off of earlier attempts to create such a device.
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Kurt Freund was initially commissioned to detect recruits attempting to evade military service by falsely claiming to be homosexual.
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Kurt Freund developed the theory of courtship disorder, explaining paraphilias such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, telephone scatologia, frotteurism, and biastophilia as disorders of the normal courtship process.
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Kurt Freund was diagnosed with cancer in 1994 and was a member of Dying with Dignity.
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Kurt Freund was cremated, and his ashes were scattered on the lawn across from his office at the Clarke Institute in Toronto and on the grounds of Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice in Prague, where he had worked for many years in Czechoslovakia.