Lead actress Ella Rumpf's father works a psychotherapist, and helped her prepare for the role of Fleur Salomé.
This is the first Netflix original series from Austria.
Over 400,000 viewers tuned in when the show premiered on the Austrian channel ORF in early March 2020.
Filming took place entirely in Prague, Czech Republic. The production consulted with Vienna-based psychoanalyst and hypnotherapist Juan José Rios.
Writing for The Guardian ( "Netflix revisionist drama is a ridiculous coked-up mess") , Adrian Horton likened Freud to "other absurd revisions of famous stories" like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.