Broadly defined, psychotherapy is the process of helping individuals deal with a variety of mental illnesses and emotional difficulties through human conversation. There exist hundreds of different ...

SOME fifty years ago, when Freud’s views on human psychology were first made known, they were given a rather hostile and contemptuous welcome by all professions, sacred and profane. The label of ...

The Unlikely Terror That Gripped Psychology's Pioneer The man who decoded the mysteries of the human mind harbored a secret ...

Both Freud and Jung took up Nietzsche’s challenge: to face suffering not as an enemy to be banished, but as the very ground ...

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 ...

Sophie Freud, who emerged from the crucible of her early life, marked by Nazi persecution in Europe and abiding family discord, to become a professor, social worker and writer who disclaimed many ...

NEW YORK — Fashion and Freud? From top hats to stilettos, bustiers to bullet dresses, what we choose to put on our backs is interpreted through the lens of psychoanalysis in a new exhibit five years ...

The first time I taught Freud was as a graduate student in the mid-1990s. At that time, most undergraduates were old enough to have grown up watching reruns of M*A*S*H*, a show that, once a season or ...

When Freud finally (in 1927) issued his Future of an Illusion in which he termed religious faith an illusion, its practices a form of compulsion neurotic ceremonial, and religion as a whole a ...