The stormy relationship of Sigmund Freud and the neuropathologist and psychiatrist Theodor Meynert helped define the origins ...

Over the past half century, psychoanalysis – the intellectual movement and therapeutic practice founded by Sigmund Freud in 1900 Vienna – has been shunned and belittled in many scientific circles.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) In 1990, George Franklin ...

Dr. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, is as famous now as he ever was. His diagnostic language has become part of our everyday conversation so that we talk freely about things like the ...

It is perhaps surprising that, in clinical settings, phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are often not clearly differentiated. This is in part because patients frequently present with ...

Quote of the Day: Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, revolutionized the understanding of the human mind. His quote, “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength,” highlights his ...

Freud then conceived that mental distress could be relieved through the purging of childhood memories hitherto repressed — memories outside of the awareness, in the unconscious. From this, Freud ...

In times of political upheaval, state-sponsored violence and collective trauma, psychoanalysis offers tools for making sense ...

If Noam Chomsky is the Devil’s Accountant, then Sigmund Freud is the Architect of Dreams. Not the whimsical kind involving rainbows and flying cows, but the kind where you’re chasing your mother ...