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

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In the summer of 1883, Sigmund Freud was a semi-employed twenty-eight-year-old medical researcher, still living in a crowded apartment with his immigrant parents and sisters. He had recently become ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Letters: Dr James Taylor and Grendon Haines respond to a review of The Only Cure by Mark Solms ...

NEW YORK — Fashion and Freud? From top hats to stilettos, bustiers to bullet dresses, what we choose to put on our backs is interpreted through the lens of psychoanalysis in a new exhibit five years ...

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