Freud loved Shakespeare, antiquity and languages and taught himself Castilian so he could read his favorite book, Don Quixote, in its original tongue. Imagination flourished in the mind of this ...

Samuel (The American Dream: A Cultural History) takes psychoanalysis off the couch in this fascinating history of the growth of Freud’s brainchild. Significantly, the author moves the discussion away ...

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 ...

""One century after its founding, psychoanalysis presents us with a paradox"" notes Zaretsky in his introduction to this spellbinding and groundbreaking cultural history, for not only was it one of ...

The man who decoded the mysteries of the human mind harbored a secret that would have sent most of his patients running to his couch. In his 40's, Freud "had numerous psychosomatic disorders as well ...

Psychoanalysis revolves around the belief you have unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories that affect how you behave and see the world. It's a type of mental health therapy. It's also a ...