It can be fairly said that therapy as we know it today is a modern and Western concept. We tend to think of treatment ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

What an utter disappointment the 1990s were for the fans of Freud. Time magazine asked aloud, and on its cover no less, “Is Freud Dead?” And the former analytic stronghold, the New York Review of ...

I am in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, surrounded by psychoanalysts. At moments, if I half close my eyes, I can imagine I’m in some European city, circa 1930: “The Kleinians have ...

The Unlikely Terror That Gripped Psychology's Pioneer The man who decoded the mysteries of the human mind harbored a secret ...

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 ...

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 ...