Psychology

Martha Freud: A Biography

Those who wish to study the founding father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, may turn to any of the thousands of…

4 weeks 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

Hidden Minds: A History of the Unconscious

Having exposed the power of the unconscious, Sigmund Freud was hardly modest in assessing his own achievement. Like Copernicus and…

4 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

Becoming William James

In the introduction Howard M. Feinstein wrote on the occasion of the reprinting of his Becoming William James (Cornell, 1999),…

9 months ago

Against Religion

The enduring power of religious belief in the 21st century would come as something of a surprise to Sigmund Freud,…

9 months ago

The Sphinx on the Table: Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection and the Development of Psychoanalysis

Janine Burke’s examination of Sigmund Freud is part biography, part art history, and part analysis of Freud, the man. She…

10 months ago

Healing the Broken Mind: Transforming America’s Failed Mental Health System

Joining the chorus of voices in the health care debate, an issue that has continued to dominate the American conversation,…

10 months ago

10 Things You Might Not Know About Sigmund Freud

1. As a child, Sigmund Freud was a good student who, aside from his native German, was also proficient in…

11 months ago