Freud then conceived that mental distress could be relieved through the purging of childhood memories hitherto repressed — memories outside of the awareness, in the unconscious. From this, Freud ...

It is perhaps surprising that, in clinical settings, phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are often not clearly differentiated. This is in part because patients frequently present with ...

Dr. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, is as famous now as he ever was. His diagnostic language has become part of our everyday conversation so that we talk freely about things like the ...

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

If Noam Chomsky is the Devil’s Accountant, then Sigmund Freud is the Architect of Dreams. Not the whimsical kind involving rainbows and flying cows, but the kind where you’re chasing your mother ...