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 ...

From a Freudian perspective, avoidability is a crucial factor in differentiating phobias from OCD. In phobia, the distressing ...

Famous psychoanalyst with famously eccentric research. But did you know some of his research focused on theories about religion?

Actor, Steven Hill, who plays Sigmund Freud on Broadway in "A Far Country" chats with fellow star Kim Stanley, center and two ...

For many centuries, churches and other religious institutions played an important role in caring for those with mental ...

After several decades at the margins of American healthcare — and 100 years after he published his last major theoretical work — Sigmund Freud is enjoying something of a comeback. Look and ...

Conditions like these used to be diagnosed as hysteria. In fact, they would fit neatly into the pages of Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer’s Studies On Hysteria, written over a century ago.

Thus, writes Britain’s Dr. Ernest Jones, a hitherto unhonored and still unnamed dwarf probably saved the life of Sigmund Freud. Medical History. Much of the third and final volume of Analyst ...

"Girl in Bed," 1952. Lucian Freud's portrait of his second wife, Caroline Blackwood, is one of more than 60 on display at London's National Gallery in "Lucian Freud: New Perspectives." (Private ...

Sigmund Freud is credited with being the father of psychoanalysis. His work involved treating pathologies believed to have originated in the psyche. He was also deeply interested in the effects of ...