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 ...

Freud’s insights into trauma, repression and the unconscious are finding new relevance and millions of followers.

Psychoanalysis is experiencing a revival globally, fueled by cultural shifts and political unrest. Once marginalized by behavioral psychology and pharmaceuticals, it now resonates with those resisting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Historically, the discipline has often flourished during periods of political crisis, offering tools to confront trauma, repression and authoritarianism — from fascist Europe to Argentina’s “dirty war ...

“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 ...

It is probably impossible to watch Sophie Robert's extraordinary compelling documentary The Wall: Psychoanalysis Put to the Test for Autism, and not be outraged. Robert's brilliantly crafted polemic, ...

In rejecting psychoanalysis to align with the "hard" sciences, psychology abandoned the human psyche. We're paying the price to this day.

I’ve always found psychoanalysts slightly awkward interview subjects. This is perhaps unsurprising when it comes to men and women who must be somewhat of a blank slate. Talking about oneself ...

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 ...

What is your greatest weakness? And is that really any of my business? Dear Lucy, the workplace advice column written by Lucy Kellaway in the Financial Times, ran a letter this week from a 52-year-old ...