From the strict dairy-free and wheat-free diet that actress Jenny McCarthy details in her best-selling book, "Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism," to mercury detoxification and ...

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 ...

Psychoanalysis revolves around the belief you have unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories that affect how you behave and see the world. It's a type of mental health therapy. It's also a ...

Since its founding by Freud in the 1890s, psychoanalysis has been concerned primarily with the uniqueness of each individual and has gathered data mostly from within the treatment relationship. This ...

I’ve always found psychoanalysts slightly awkward interview subjects. This is perhaps unsurprising when it comes to men and women who must be somewhat of a blank slate. Talking about oneself ...

I am in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, surrounded by psychoanalysts. At moments, if I half close my eyes, I can imagine I’m in some European city, circa 1930: “The Kleinians have ...

Often when people think of psychoanalysis, they picture Freud smoking a cigar and scratching his white beard. Unfortunately, such a picture gives the impression that psychoanalysis belongs to the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once in a psychoanalysis session, I cried and laughed at the same time. The energies of each separate, ...

“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 ...

What is your greatest weakness? And is that really any of my business? Dear Lucy, the workplace advice column written by Lucy Kellaway in the Financial Times, ran a letter this week from a 52-year-old ...