Freud didn’t just invent psychoanalysis. He invented the modern notion of the self: that what we are is not just what we do, or say, or post on Instagram, but a bubbling cauldron of instincts ...

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916–1917) Here, Freud uses a humorous metaphor to describe the very nature of psychoanalysis. Once a person begins exploring their unconscious mind, the ...

Famous psychoanalyst with famously eccentric research. But did you know some of his research focused on theories about ...

Playing historical figures like Freud and Jung requires a balance between respect and creativity.

Since his death in 1939, Sigmund Freud has had a rough go. Modern psychologists have pooh-poohed his ideas as unscientific.

At the time, Vatican policy was critical of Sigmund Freud, but the pope recalled: “The advice and observations that [the psychoanalyst] gave me were very helpful — her teachings are still very ...

It makes me think of a quote by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis: “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” These individuals see the vulnerability in the ones who hurt ...

Two Fresno women, Hanna Krebs and Eva Maiden, share their stories of horror and bravery escaping the Holocaust.

Sigmund Freud once said, “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love,” and this is something you will understand deeply. You’ll see the psychological defense mechanisms ...

A mad “shrink” high on cocaine, obsessed with sex, death and bizarre theories of the mind – that’s how many people remember Sigmund Freud, whose work has given us concepts like Freudian ...