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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I knew there was something a little old-fashioned about my psychoanalytic training institute when I saw a note in the catalog mentioning that smoking was permitted in the building -- Smoking? In New ...

Kingston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The expansive new exhibition Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists fills the entire space of London’s Freud Museum. It ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? On the death of Sigmund Freud, W.H. Auden memorably observed that he was ...

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise,” Sigmund Freud once said. Psychoanalysis, the field that he founded, is taking the opposite approach. The American Psychoanalytic Association ...

Though Sophie Freud was a granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, she made clear that she wasn’t a Freudian, professionally speaking. “I’m very skeptical about much of psychoanalysis,” she told the Boston ...