Freud revolutionized the understanding and treatment of mental disorders. He created the psychoanalytic theory of personality. But beyond this, he profoundly changed our understanding of humanity, ...

Freud’s insights into trauma, repression and the unconscious are finding new relevance and millions of followers.

When I meet someone new and say that I’m a psychoanalyst, they often say, “Oh, you’re a Freudian.” Well, no, not exactly. Psychoanalytic thinking has come a long way since Freud, and there are now ...

Sigmund Freud's seminal texts on psychoanalysis sealed his position as the unofficial father of modern psychology. Whilst not subscribing to any explicitly political weltanschauung – or world-view – ...

I n the midst of the First World War, Sigmund Freud delivered a famous series of lectures at the Vienna Psychiatric Clinic. For an audience of both clinicians and laypeople, the father of ...

Herzog’s account treats the Cold War less as a specific struggle between America and the USSR, and more as the setting for a broad range of political and cultural forces that swept up and transformed ...

Psychoanalysis is experiencing a revival globally, fueled by cultural shifts and political unrest. Once marginalized by behavioral psychology and pharmaceuticals, it now resonates with those resisting ...

Psychology is a scientific field focused on studying the way the human mind works and how it influences behavior and personality, according to the Cambridge Dictionary. The field is not definite ...

Historically, the discipline has often flourished during periods of political crisis, offering tools to confront trauma, repression and authoritarianism — from fascist Europe to Argentina’s “dirty war ...

HOLLYWOOD — C.S. Lewis is back on movie screens this winter. Released this Christmas, Freud’s Last Session stars Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud and Matthew Goode as Lewis. The movie is set on the ...