As his anguish grew more and more intense by the mid 1890s, Freud turned to the therapy he had invented to help others to ease his own suffering. He subjected his tumultuous thoughts and feelings to ...

Dream research in the first half of the 20th century was mostly about proving Freud right. In the second half of the 20th century it was mostly about proving Freud wrong. Now, in the early decades of ...

In 1897 Sigmund Freud began his famous course of self-analysis. He had already noticed that dreams played an important role in his analysis of neurotic and "hysterical" patients. As he encouraged them ...

In an autobiographical tour de force that melds memoir with sophisticated science writing, eminent Harvard psychiatrist and neuroscientist Hobson (The Dreaming Brain, etc.) analyzes 13 of his own ...

Freudian psychology is based on the work of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). He is considered the father of psychoanalysis and is largely credited with establishing the field of talk ...

When Sigmund Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” was first published in 1899, he initially believed it a flop — that it had failed to make any impact — and it took nearly a decade before a second ...

The controversial Austrian psychoanalyst shared his thoughts on resilience.