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 ...

There are more than thirty full-length biographies of Sigmund Freud in circulation today. Why keep writing them? Generally, there are two justifications for a new biography: an obscure archive may ...

Conversation is a gift. Or it can be, if we approach it with the right disposition. After all, what is a conversation? We're saying to another, "I want to hear you. I want to give you my attention, my ...

A new generation of analysts and patients is embracing the father of psychoanalysis – in magazines and memes and many hours on the couch. Credit...Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Renstrom for The New ...

In the spring of 1938, the Nazis were circling like vultures around Berggasse 19, the Vienna home of Sigmund Freud. The German Reich had annexed Austria on March 13th, and Hitler paraded through ...

For almost all of his life, Sigmund Freud wasn’t into dogs unless they appeared in his patients’ dreams where they crouched in trees, bushy-tailed and menacing, or nipped and wriggled as the ...

Freud once wrote: "I have no inclination to keep the domain of the psychological floating as it were in the air, without any organic foundation. Let the biologists go as far as they can and let us go ...

His aversion to America was by no means unconscious: given the choice between safe passage to the United States and increasing oppression at the hands of the Nazis, Sigmund Freud chose to stick with ...

A 35-year-old woman loses the use of her legs, suddenly becoming paralysed from the waist down. In another case, a woman feels an overwhelming compulsion to close her eyes, until eventually she cannot ...

One hundred years ago, Sigmund Freud arrived in the United States on his first and only visit. As the George Washington pulled into New York Harbor, he supposedly remarked to Carl Jung, who ...

This week on Layers of Adaptation Theatre is Freud’s Last Session (now on Netflix), a movie based on a stage production (of the same title) based on a book (The Question of God by Armand Nicholi) ...