Sigmund 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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Martha Freud: A Biography

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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