From the strict dairy-free and wheat-free diet that actress Jenny McCarthy details in her best-selling book, "Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism," to mercury detoxification and ...

Psychoanalysis revolves around the belief you have unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories that affect how you behave and see the world. It's a type of mental health therapy. It's also a ...

As the author of the American Psychological Association’s Theories of Psychotherapy Series graduate-level introduction to psychoanalytically oriented theory and practice, I am often asked to speak ...

"On the one hand, psychoanalysis is practical in the sense that there is an attempt to solve a problem, or to cure somebody, or at least to address their suffering. But the other thing that ...

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise,” Sigmund Freud once said. Psychoanalysis, the field that he founded, is taking the opposite approach. The American Psychoanalytic Association ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once in a psychoanalysis session, I cried and laughed at the same time. The energies of each separate, ...

Edge Hill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Children with problems or problem children? That is the question often asked by parents and teachers alike. If a child is ...

In 2017, feeling thwarted and bilious after almost two decades as a lawyer, I began taking classes at a Manhattan psychoanalytic institute, with the goal of changing professions. Among my classmates, ...

I’ve always found psychoanalysts slightly awkward interview subjects. This is perhaps unsurprising when it comes to men and women who must be somewhat of a blank slate. Talking about oneself ...

The Unlikely Terror That Gripped Psychology's Pioneer The man who decoded the mysteries of the human mind harbored a secret that would have sent most of his patients running to his couch. In his 40's, ...

SOME fifty years ago, when Freud’s views on human psychology were first made known, they were given a rather hostile and contemptuous welcome by all professions, sacred and profane. The label of ...