At the turn of the last century, Sigmund Freud shocked the world with what biographer Peter Gay called “his portrayal of man, the insatiable animal pushed and pulled by unrespectable, largely ...

For years, famed pschyoanalyst Sigmund Freud had been in deep denial about Hitler’s looming threat, as revealed in a new book “Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom.” But his ...

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

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis probably never met. What the stage-based film presupposes is: Maybe they did? By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...

After the Nazi takeover of Austria, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and other Jewish doctors became targets. Freud, center, poses here with his daughter Mathilde and the Welsh psychoanalyst Ernest ...

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 ...

News about Sigmund Freud, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

"Freud's Last Session," starring Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud and Matthew Goode as C.S. Lewis, is a meditation on conversation as the two meet to discuss God, humanity and the intermingling of ...

Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychiatrist, in the office of his Vienna home looking at a manuscript (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor) ...

In 'Freud's Last Session,' Matthew Brown stiffly indulges an intellectual fantasy, imagining a meeting between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud.

In the 19th century, hysteria was a disorder that confounded doctors. Today, not much has changed. Sigmund Freud first proposed that mental trauma could become physical disability 100 years ago ...

How Sigmund Freud fled Nazi Austria, leaving siblings who perished in the Holocaust In his new book ‘Saving Freud,’ award-winning journalist Andrew Nagorski explores the history surrounding ...