Freud postulated that the id, ego, and superego are the three major components of personality. Understanding Freud's psychodynamic perspective is important in learning about the history of psychology.

Freud’s early writings on the superego began in 1895 when he considered the superego as a function of judgment and described it as a type of “watchdog.” In his 1923 work, The Ego and the Id, he ...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental illness that afflicts roughly 2 percent of the general population (Paris, 2010), 10 percent of psychiatric outpatients (Zimmerman ...

The building of the cultural structure has taken men away from women. Although he does not care for the honors which are bestowed on most famed scientists, Dr. Freud enjoys understanding.

Writing in 1908, Freud identified a cluster of personality traits that came to be known as the “anal triad”. Orderliness, obstinacy and parsimony.

THIS critical history of the psycho-analytical movement, as seen from within by Dr. Fritz Wittels, is of necessity, and admittedly, biassed by his own temperament. He describes how five years of ...

When it first appeared in 1950, The Authoritarian Personality was primed for classic status. It ran to just under 1,000 pages. Its publisher, Harper & Brothers, had brought out Gunnar Myrdal’s ...

The Structure and Meaning of Psycho-analysis as related to Personality and Behavior. Dr. William. Healy. Dr. Augusta F. Bronner. Anna Mae. Bowers. Pp. xx + 482 + xxiv.