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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing series about ...

"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 ...

The philosopher's critique of psychoanalysis asks us to consider what happens when a therapist's interpretation becomes ...

In “Monogamy,” a collection of a hundred and twenty-one aphorisms on coupling and uncoupling, the psychoanalyst and prolific writer Adam Phillips suggests that the faithful and the promiscuous aren’t ...

Children with problems or problem children? That is the question often asked by parents and teachers alike. If a child is naughty in school, are they a “bad” child or are they facing mental ill health ...

Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis - but now, is he just a poppet?(poppet with a camera/ Flickr CC) Psychoanalysis has been widely criticised and largely obscured from the mainstream treatment of ...

Freud’s work changed fiction and philosophy as well as ideas of psychology and sexuality. From Michel Foucault to Philip Roth, here is some great writing about the talking cure What defines the great ...

The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture (CSPC) is a trans-disciplinary center housed within the University at Buffalo English Department and supported by the department in conjunction ...

Psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a way of treating longstanding psychological problems that is based on the belief behaviours have underlying drivers which may be unrecognised and ...

A new film on the doctor is weak on the facts. But it marks a year in which we’ve turned to his theories to comprehend suffering – and to get treatment Against the background of the always-on sonic ...

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 ...