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, ...

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 ...

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, a neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, revolutionized the understanding of mental distress by exploring ...

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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 do not take drugs. I am drugs. You can take me. I am a hallucinogen.” These are the famous words left by surrealist painter Salvador Dalí (1904–1989). Though it may sound like boasting, it is not an ...

An expert in both disciplines makes a bold attempt to convince sceptics, and partially succeeds Vladimir Nabokov notoriously dismissed the “vulgar, shabby, and fundamentally medieval world” of the ...

Sigmund Freud believed most people avoid true freedom. This is because freedom demands responsibility. People prefer to ...