freud

Mrs. Freud: A Novel

Despite the recent biography of Martha Freud by Katja Behling, and the numerous books about her husband, Sigmund Freud, little…

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Freud’s Traumatic Memory: Reclaiming Seduction Theory and Revisiting Oedipus

The rhetoric of psychoanalysis is just one of Mary Marcel’s diverse research interests. Like her first book, Freud’s Traumatic Memory,…

2 months ago

Against Therapy

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s book Against Therapy turns the entire concept of the practice of psychotherapy on its ear. In fact,…

3 months ago

Freud: An Intellectual Biography

In this book, author Joel Whitebook offers historian Salo Barron’s notion that if someone of Doctor Sigmund Freud’s stature wrote…

3 months ago

Freud: Right or Wrong? Edward Erwin on Why Freud is Still Important

  Although some of his theories are still hotly debated, Sigmund Freud, (May 6, 1856–September 23, 1939) is widely regarded as…

8 months ago

Freud: Right or Wrong? Edward Erwin on Why Freud is Still Important

Although some of his theories are still hotly debated, Sigmund Freud, (May 6, 1856–September 23, 1939) is widely regarded as a…

12 months ago

Freud’s Faults: Frank Sulloway on the Father of Psychoanalysis’s Dubious Methods and Practices

  Although some of his theories are still hotly debated, Sigmund Freud, (May 6, 1856–September 23, 1939) is widely regarded as…

1 year ago

Freud’s Pioneering Work Was Not Just an Ego Trip

In centuries past, the study of factors that shape human feelings and behavior was not a well-known field. Depression was…

2 years ago

Frederick Crews: What Did Freud’s Theory Owe to Cocaine?

Although some of his theories are still hotly debated, Sigmund Freud, (1856–1939) is widely regarded as a trailblazer in the realm…

9 years ago

Allan Schore On Freud’s Work: It’s All in “The Right Mind”

Although some of his theories are still hotly debated, Sigmund Freud, (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) is widely regarded…

9 years ago