In the summer of 1883, Sigmund Freud was a semi-employed twenty-eight-year-old medical researcher, still living in a crowded apartment with his immigrant parents and sisters. He had recently become ...

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Freud revolutionized the understanding and treatment of mental disorders. He created the psychoanalytic theory of personality. But beyond this, he profoundly changed our understanding of humanity, ...

Sigmund Freud, a neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, revolutionized the understanding of mental distress by exploring ...

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 ...

Sigmund Freud's observation that people often shun freedom due to its inherent responsibility resonates today. His theories ...

I do not take drugs. I am drugs. You can take me. I am a hallucinogen.” These are the famous words left by surrealist painter Salvador Dalí (1904–1989). Though it may sound like boasting, it is not an ...

An expert in both disciplines makes a bold attempt to convince sceptics, and partially succeeds Vladimir Nabokov notoriously dismissed the “vulgar, shabby, and fundamentally medieval world” of the ...

NEW YORK — Fashion and Freud? From top hats to stilettos, bustiers to bullet dresses, what we choose to put on our backs is interpreted through the lens of psychoanalysis in a new exhibit five years ...