Once marginalised by behavioural psychology and pharmaceutical approaches, psychoanalysis is regaining prominence in media, academia and online culture, with renewed interest in Freud’s ideas. Today’s ...

Sigmund Freud's seminal texts on psychoanalysis sealed his position as the unofficial father of modern psychology. Whilst not subscribing to any explicitly political weltanschauung – or world-view – ...

In classical psychoanalysis, as pioneered by Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), the patient reclines on a couch, while the therapist sits behind them, and so cannot be seen directly by the client. Sigmund ...

In times of political upheaval, state-sponsored violence and collective trauma, psychoanalysis offers tools for making sense ...

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 ...

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 ...

The stormy relationship of Sigmund Freud and the neuropathologist and psychiatrist Theodor Meynert helped define the origins ...

Freud is the new Austrian-German thriller series on Netflix. All eight episodes are available to stream and download now and viewers have been binge-watching the unique series in one go. Fans are ...

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), the founder of psychoanalysis, was born in the middle of the 19th century, an age characterised by rapid scientific and technological progress. It seemed then that the power ...

Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud has been referred to as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century and Saturday marks the 161st anniversary of his death. As the founder of ...