Sigmund Freud and a century old secret

I have thought recently about why Freud kept his abilities secret. I know from clues from his work he saw structures like personality. He made the decision to keep what he knew secret and used what he knew in a round about way (like developing psychoanalysis), ive started thinking it was because he feared what is happening to me and my family. His children would likely have been experimented on if the world found out, his semen would have been worth a fortune to this ends. So ive started thinking maybe his decision to keep what he knew secret wasn't only for fear of what his abilities would do to the world, it was for the sake of his children, and their children after them. D