A difficult mixture of the all too familiar and the experimental, the mostly reassuring and the partly disinhibited,” Phillips contends in “The Life You Want” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), his latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will host the 2026 Robert S. Wallerstein Lecture in Psychoanalysis ...

A new film on the doctor is weak on the facts. But it marks a year in which we’ve turned to his theories to comprehend suffering – and to get treatment Against the background of the always-on sonic ...

"On the one hand, psychoanalysis is practical in the sense that there is an attempt to solve a problem, or to cure somebody, or at least to address their suffering. But the other thing that ...

Freud’s work changed fiction and philosophy as well as ideas of psychology and sexuality. From Michel Foucault to Philip Roth, here is some great writing about the talking cure What defines the great ...

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 ...

SOME fifty years ago, when Freud’s views on human psychology were first made known, they were given a rather hostile and contemptuous welcome by all professions, sacred and profane. The label of ...