A mad “shrink” high on cocaine, obsessed with sex, death and bizarre theories of the mind – that’s how many people remember ...

Reparenting originated in the 1960s, when the therapist Jacqui Schiff encouraged her patients with schizophrenia to live with ...

In his book Genius, Harold Bloom calls this phenomenon Freud’s “mythology of the mind surviv [ing] his supposed science.” Though his scientific legitimacy has been rebuked, Freud’s validity, I’d argue ...

Making its world premiere this autumn, Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler is a new dark comedy from BAFTA award-winning writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (Birds of a Feather, BBC 1; ...

In psychotherapy, adult patients sometimes ask, “It’s just talking, how does it work?” A possible answer is that therapeutic ...

Today, thanks to Freud, the man-on-the-street knows (to quote by an inaccurate memory from Punch) that, when he thinks a thing, the thing he thinks is not the thing he thinks he thinks, but only ...

December 3 is the 120th anniversary of Anna Freud 's birth. She was a profoundly influential child psychoanalyst. Still, her main claim to fame was as Sigmund Freud's daughter. What most people ...

Sigmund Freud Wikimedia Commons Sigmund Freud circa 1922. During the postwar years, the quality of the magazine’s political writing was uneven, at best.

In ‘Freud’s Last Session,’ a verbal showdown is hampered by too much psychological baggage Anthony Hopkins, left, and Matthew Goode in the movie “Freud’s Last Session.” ...